(Looks like I perhaps forgot to send this last month...) GNOME Sysadmin Summary - July 2005 ==================================
At the beginning of the month, there were problems with pserver CVS access and DNS propogation still outstanding from last month's server move. The DNS problems were caused by a combination of Ross not updating the 'whois' information correctly (misunderstood NetworkSolutions interface) and the admins for the slave servers not updating their master IP responsively. On Friday 1st, Luis Villa spotted that the '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' alias wasn't working, as a result of some recent changes intended to direct the flow of all incoming external mail to the gnome.org servers via menubar (for anti-spam/virus filtering first). Bug-buddy reports were being rejected. Ross added menubar as the highest MX record which resolved the problem. On Saturday 2nd, Stric noticed that ftp.gnome.org wasn't able to connect via rsync to master (window). On Tuesday 6th, Matthew Galgoci came back to say they'd opened up the rsync port on one of the firewalls in front of window. On Monday 4th, Matthew replaced one of the drives in the RAID array on menubar that had been giving faults for a couple of days. He'd replaced a similar drive in window the previous week. On Tuesday 5th, our 'orgo.progsoc.uts.edu.au' DNS slave started syncing again (thanks Anund Kumria). On Wednesday 6th, our 'ns.axu.tm' DNS slave started syncing again (thanks Aleksi Suhonen). On Thursday 7th, anoncvs5 developed a problem it's password file. Ramons quickly resolved it. On Thursday 7th, a 'mail for bugs.gnome.org loops back to myself' SMTP error was reported. Ross added a Postfix 'transport' entry to push the mail from menubar to window. On Thursday 7th (busy day), Owen corrected some CVS madness in the drivel module that apparently occurred as a result of a CVS bug. Reported by Todd (drivel maintainer). On Friday 8th, Gregory McLean reported that posts to 'cvs-commits-list' had stopped. Gregory suggested that it was because the commit mails had started being ent out as 'gnome.org' instead of 'container.gnome.org', which was conflicting with the 'allowed senders' filters for those lists. On Monday 25th, this change in behaviour was reverted by forcing myorigin in the Postfix config. That seems to have fixed it for cvs-commits-list, but there is still a problem that seems to be affecting 'cvs-commits-po-list' (reported seperately on gnome-i18n). On Wednesday 20th, Murray Cumming requested 'xml2po' (part of gnome-doc-utils) be installed on window for the developer.g.o. docs generation. Ross installed it and it's dependencies. Unfortunately, it ended up giving Murray a stacktrace. Murray requested python be upgraded, but so far nobody seems willing to take it on (at least, not before an upgrade to RHEL4). -- Ross _______________________________________________ Gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
