GNOME Sysadmin Summary - March 2005 ======================================
On the 3rd, Vincent Untz pointed out that the foundation membership list was not being updated from CVS. It turns out that that the update script had been disabled. It was re-enabled, and error output directed to '[email protected]' so we might spot this sooner if it happens again. (Ross) Also on the 3rd, 'AddDefaultCharSet utf-8' was added globally to the Apache configuration on window (Ross). The only problem that seems to have occurred is a few dodgy characters in the API docs. The API docs should be regenerated using a UTF-8 friendly encoding (e.g. US-ASCII) to resolve the problem. Also on the 3rd, an area was set up on l.g.o. (http://live.gnome.org/Infrastructure), and the content from the sysadmin.gnome.org site content began being migrated there. (Ross) On the 7th, a new RewriteRule was added to bugzilla's virtual host to allow <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/12345> URLs to work. Requested by Olav Vitters (Ross). On the 9th, at approx 09:00 (UTC), window.gnome.org started going into out-of-memory death for unknown reasons. It was down for approximately 5 hours before it could be rebooted (Owen). We're not sure what caused it yet. On the 10th, Toni noticed that crond wasn't running on container, meaning that account updates weren't taking effect. Toni restarted cron on container, which prompted Ross to notice that cron was also not running on menubar for a few days and button for over a week. They were both restarted. Also on the 10th, Jim Hodapp reported a problem with the database holding the gnomejournal.org articles. Owen responded by repairing the MySQL table. The problem was due to the format of the gnomejournal database tables not being upgraded from the old to the new ISAM format when mySQL was upgraded last month. On Tuesday 15th, Kjartan set up a 'bugzilla-test.gnome.org' virtualhost and associated databases on window as per a request from Olav. On Sun 19th, Ross moved the databases onto button, and set the max_allowed_packet to 2M to allow Olav to import some attachments. On Sun 19th, Ross followed some instructions from James Henstridge that updated the viewcvs program and allowed it to make use of the data in the bonsai CVS commits database. It didn't work first time, so viewcvs got b0rked for a day or so. On Thu 24th, Owen noticed that www.gnome.org was unresponsive and had a high load due to the slashdotting of Seth's blogpagem, which was running as a python CGI. Owen upped the number of httpd daemon processes, and Toni (and Stric and maswan) cached a copy of the page and added some Rewrite rules to calm things down. The rewrite rule has since been removed. On Sat 26th, Ross set up a very basic SMTP AUTH account for Tim Ney, who was having trouble communicating with IBM regarding GNOME business due to an unusual anti-spam measure on the IBM mailservers. -- Ross _______________________________________________ Gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
