> Your user is not sudoer on bots-1 because bots-1 is one of worst instances > we have and people are discouraged from using it - as you can read in docs - > https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Bots/Documentation#Servers
Well, excuuuuse me. I didn't get the memo. That change was made three weeks ago. Should I be checking the docs more often? Maybe. But I think a better idea would be a bots project mailing list. Daniel P.S.: I appreciate that you avoided explicitly putting "RTFM" into your mail... > - on other bots-N instances you are sudoer. On bots-nrN instances you aren't > but each of them contains /mnt/share - local storage for anything. > > > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Daniel Schwen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Ok, I don't get this discussion. My user is not a sudoer on bots-1, so >> I cannot setup my own /data/projects directory. Obviously it is a >> matter of convenience to just use the home directory. And this is a >> common usage pattern on many hosting services (such as the >> toolserver). It should be absolutely no surprise that this happens. >> Daniel >> >> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: >> > ~ is a nice place for private data and configuration but production >> > services, such as bots, should be on a different filesystem. I don't >> > think >> > you installed all your applications on your personal computer to home >> > folder. >> > >> > >> > >> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:55 AM, Ori Livneh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Ryan Lane wrote: >> >> > We're switching the home directories to gluster on Monday. That said, >> >> > it's recommended to not use /home even after the switch. >> >> >> >> The fact that you've so often had to remind people not to use ~/ >> >> suggests >> >> that it violates people's intuitions and expectations about UNIX >> >> environments. That's certainly been my experience: I keep having to >> >> remind >> >> myself not to pile things up in ~/, which forces me to have to rethink >> >> a lot >> >> of things that have become practically muscle memory, like setting up a >> >> virtualenv under ~/ for various handy Python packages. >> >> >> >> Are the reasons for deprecating the use of ~/ for storage of personal >> >> files fundamental to the architecture of labs? If not, I think it'd be >> >> worth >> >> reconsidering. >> >> >> >> Thanks as always for maintaining such a useful service. >> >> >> >> Ori >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Labs-l mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Labs-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Labs-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l > _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
