[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: reliable, incremental git-cvs ?

2006-11-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Sylvain Beucler wrote: I haven't setup an auto-packing commit hook so may need to have me do that. I'm planning to add something like in post-update: export GIT_DIR=coreutils.git git-count-objects # If 5120k git repack git prune A useful reference for update scripts is the

[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [Savannah-cvs] [ListHelperAntiSpam] (edit) wiki markup cleanup

2006-11-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Sylvain Beucler wrote: http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/ListHelperAntiSpam Thanks for the mark-up clean-up Bob :) I just learned of that wiki yesterday and noticed that page on listhelper there. Seems like a good place for more information. I should add some more information in that

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: locate on sv.gnu.org?

2007-01-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Jim Meyering wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) wrote: [using locate] doesn't happen very often. I've maybe done it half a dozen times since I got access. I'll miss it on the occasions when it's needed, but if no one else cares, never mind. I too find locate very useful, and used

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah backup exclusion

2007-07-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Sylvain Beucler wrote: apt-proxy is pretty buggy Agreed. I wanted to mention that it was replaced by 'apt-cacher', which worked great in Sarge but in Etch seems to be suffering from featuritis, but is still better than apt-proxy. I am told that many people are having good luck using 'approx'

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] new mailing list blurb

2008-01-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Sylvain Beucler wrote: - We at Savannah represent a strong stand against services that keep their source code private (such as SourceForge, of course). Hence, we need a permanent location where the listhelper source code can be downloaded, if possible with instructions on how to set it

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] new mailing list blurb

2008-01-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Karl Berry wrote: http://tug.org/~karl/alc.html is my expanded text to be shown in the list creation page. More comments? By default, Mailman sends request for notification on every message, and this is critical for listhelper's operation. You will probably want to filter these from your

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] new mailing list blurb

2008-01-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Sylvain Beucler wrote: Since listhelper rely on this 'admin_immed_notify' parameter being turn on, list admins need to be careful not to turn it off. We can suggest that list admins, if they don't want the requests for approval mails, use a filter rule in their MUA instead. Thanks. That

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] help-grub and bug-grub

2008-02-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: Robert Millan wrote: With [EMAIL PROTECTED] we didn't have any problem with spam, since it's subscriber-only. If help-grub is made subscriber-only as well, we can avoid the spam too. It would certainly be inconvenient to users if they needed to subscribe in order

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] help-grub and bug-grub

2008-02-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Robert Millan wrote: Which is that? Either someone actively moderates the list, or we accept spam as a part of it. We moderate non-subscriber email. Messages from subscribed users are passed through normally without delay. Here is a quick overview:

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] help-grub and bug-grub

2008-02-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Robert Millan wrote: Karl Berry wrote: We moderate non-subscriber email. That is, we, meaning a small group of volunteers of whom Bob and I are two, are willing to moderate non-subscriber email to any GNU lists for which there is no one else willing. (We already handle dozens.)

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: CVS server clogged up

2008-04-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Steve White wrote: Karl Berry wrote: FWIW, I have had similar problems with CVS servers (including but not limited to savannah) in the past, even though the server is running fine. It was due to network hobgoblins between me and the server. I don't deny that explanation, but it needs

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] rules for email

2008-04-08 Thread Bob Proulx
nick alvaro wrote: I got a bounce for a e-mail that I sent to this list. Are there any rules for e-mailing to savannah-hackers? Show us the bounce? Posting it to a pastebin and posting the URL to it would be best. The title of the bounce was The results of your email commands. That sounds

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] spam posting replies

2008-05-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Karl Berry wrote: Presumably user gronholm is a fake. When this happens, is there some way to disable the user from posting again? Or is that already done? Or is it useless? (The posting is already marked as spam.) Apparently not. Here is some previous discussion.

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] [gnu.org #365733] Helping Improve Savannah Volunteer

2008-06-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Karl Berry wrote: http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/SavaneTasks ... Working on spam would be great. Yes The after-the-fact approach we have now is a big drag, because spam often gets sent to the project mailing lists as soon as it is posted. With spam, it seems to me

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] [gnu.org #365733] Helping Improve Savannah Volunteer

2008-06-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Karl Berry wrote: Right now once spam is posted it can never be removed. It can only be collapsed into a small font tag if five people vote that it is spam. BTW, isn't that an awfully high barrier? I don't know of any other system that requires more than one admin to look at

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Side comments

2009-05-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Karl Berry wrote: However, I just now tried to open https://savannah.gnu.org in the firefox3 from CentOS, and, it seems that the cacert root is in ff3 after all! I was not aware of that. So -- yay! Everything seems good. I just tried this in a freshly installed Firefox 3 from mozilla.org

[Savannah-hackers-public] Recent spam to mailing list.

2011-11-14 Thread Bob Proulx
The recent spam to the mailing list was due to a subscribed address. It appears that at some time previously subscribed members were automatically whitelisted and unmoderated. An old address came back from the past to haunt us. To clear this problem and also avoid more future problems of the

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah bzr server errors out

2012-01-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Bake Timmons wrote: Thanks to all--I've learned from you all. I will try again next month when I get more dialup hours. In the long run, I would hope for either being able to resume the download of a bazaar pack or for smaller maximum pack sizes, say 30MB. Here is an idea: Perhaps you could

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Getting an error when trying to make changes on a private branch

2012-10-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Nikolas Kallis wrote: I am performing the Coreutils Contribution Guidelines: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/HACKING I will go ahead and try to answer your question but let's take any future discussion over to the coreutils list please. I am up to 'Make your changes on a

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Problem with Coreutils Contribution Guidelines

2012-10-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Nikolas Kallis wrote: There is a problem with the Coreutils Contribution Guidelines: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/HACKING This would be a great discussion to have on the coreutils project discussion list over at coreut...@gnu.org instead of here. This is the savannah

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] how to build libntlm

2013-02-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Bill Liu wrote: To whom it may be concerned: You have reached the mailing list for people who hack on Savannah. Savannah is the software forge for people committed to free software. The web site, the version control hosting, that type of thing. Hello. I am newbie to libntlm. I recently

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] making sure I don't damage a git repo

2013-02-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Aharon Robbins wrote: I have copies of those branches on my personal system and want to push them back up. ... I did some experimenting on some test repos, and I believe that all I need to do is git push origin num-handler # and likewise for long-double and then things will be

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] memory leak or bad uasge ?

2013-02-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Noam weissman wrote: I am running a simple TCP terminal server that works like a telnet server but with no Protocol. Actually a s simple TCP server. I use raw TCP terminal. You have reached the mailing list for people who hack on Savannah. Savannah is the software forge for people committed to

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Answer to a task in order to join Savannah Administration

2013-03-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Hi Adrián, Adrián wrote: following the indications published here[1], I chose the following task: Thank you for picking up the task. task #12149: please delete master branch for FreeON project https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?12149 I ran 'git filter-branch' because I grafted that branch

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] git accumulations on vcs

2013-03-06 Thread Bob Proulx
James Cloos wrote: KB exec timeout 120m /usr/lib/git-core/git-daemon $@ ... Anyway, from git/daemon.c:run_service(): /* * We'll ignore SIGTERM from now on, we have a * good client. */ signal(SIGTERM, SIG_IGN); so that is why timeout(1) fails.

[Savannah-hackers-public] frontend /etc/init.d/sql_injection_monitor errors

2013-03-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Monitor ### END INIT INFO # Author: Unknown but likely Michael J. Flickinger or Sylvain Beucler. # Updated: Bob Proulx. # PATH should only include /usr/* if it runs after the mountnfs.sh script PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin DESC=SQL Injection Monitor NAME=sql_injection_monitor SCRIPTNAME=/etc

[Savannah-hackers-public] internal.savannah.gnu.org web server access

2013-03-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Is internal.savannah.gnu.org's web server available from the outside world? It appears that was where munin had run previously. I would restore it there if it were accessible. I am thinking that access is blocked at the firewall these days however. But thought I might as well ask about it.

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] internal.savannah.gnu.org web server access

2013-03-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Hi Ryan, Ryan Doyle wrote: I'm thinking it would make sense to have this on the mgt server. This is externally accessible and has other monitoring-type applications running on it (Nagios). Thoughts? Ah! mgt's web server is externally accessible. That would work. My thoughts are that

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] internal.savannah.gnu.org web server access

2013-03-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Ryan Doyle wrote: Yup, sure is. You could setup munin.savannah.gnu.org or similar and used name-based virtual hosting on Apache. I don't think we need a separate virtual server for it. At least not yet. I set it up here. http://mgt.savannah.gnu.org/munin/ The advantage to a separate URL

[Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah VM system upgrades

2013-03-09 Thread Bob Proulx
I would like to walk through the Savannah VMs and get all of them their security upgrades. I would like to discuss the procedure for doing this. The VMs are at: download: 6.0.2 frontend: 6.0 internal: 6.0.2 mgt: 6.0.2 vcs: 6.0.1 I think mgt might be the closest to savannah-hackers

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] internal.savannah.gnu.org web server access

2013-03-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: Except that there appears to be firewall blocking between mgt and all of vcs, frontend, download. It can only connect to internal. I plan on adding this rule to the /etc/default/iptables-rules files on the various VMs. # Allow munin from 140.186.70.74 mgt.savannah.gnu.org

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] internal.savannah.gnu.org web server access

2013-03-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Karl Berry wrote: # Allow munin from 140.186.70.74 mgt.savannah.gnu.org -A INPUT -m tcp -p tcp --dport 4949 --src 140.186.70.74 -j ACCEPT Sounds good to me, FWIW. Okay. Will do during daylight sysadmin hours. Just in case. I think mgt might be the closest to

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah VM system upgrades

2013-03-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Karl Berry wrote in the other message: I think mgt might be the closest to savannah-hackers and the furthest from the public and therefore I propose that we upgrade it first. Also sounds good to me. Sounds good. Will upgrade mgt first and then decide what to do next. When

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah VM system upgrades

2013-03-18 Thread Bob Proulx
A few days turned into a few more because I wanted to wait for weekday daylight hours when everyone would be around. I am going to check with sysadmin then will reboot mgt today. After the reboot we can check that everything got restarted correctly. It has been 336 days since the init.d scripts

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah VM system upgrades

2013-03-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: I am going to check with sysadmin then will reboot mgt today. After the reboot we can check that everything got restarted correctly. It has been 336 days since the init.d scripts were tested. :-) After that it is more cleaning before getting the upgrade under way. The mgt

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah VM system upgrades

2013-03-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: Next steps are cleaning old config files (*.dpkg-* and *.ucf-*) and obsolete conffiles from init.d if any so as to have things clean. Then the upgrade. Probably ready to reboot tomorrow to the latest kernel that will get installed. All done. The mgt VM has been upgraded

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Unable to run GUI application using cross-compiled jamvm for arm

2013-03-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Hello Aditya, aditya sen wrote: Hello everyone, First of all I apologize for this direct message. I went through the website https://savannah.gnu.org/ and only found this address where I can post my query. I am sorru if I posted at the wrong place. Below is the description of the problem

[Savannah-hackers-public] Next Savannah VM system upgrade - internal

2013-03-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Continuing in the upgrades I plan on doing the same recipe on internal next. I think it is completely normal and so good for the next pick of low hanging fruit. It runs MySQL and I will make sure we have a good db backup prior to the upgrade. But there is the preparatory cleaning to do on it

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Next Savannah VM system upgrade - internal

2013-03-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: Continuing in the upgrades I plan on doing the same recipe on internal next. I think it is completely normal and so good for the next pick of low hanging fruit. It runs MySQL and I will make sure we have a good db backup prior to the upgrade. But there is the preparatory

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] (no subject)

2013-03-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Ankith S wrote: I have found some c source code of UNIX commands.page is coreutils.git - GNU coreutils.htm. And is it possible to compile those codes using gcc compiler??if possible please guide me how to compile?? You have reached the mailing list for people who hack on Savannah.

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] A wasteland of a wiki

2013-03-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Karl Berry wrote: We can't copy from the old wiki. That's the whole problem (well, the biggest part of it, anyway). At least I don't know how. As I read that suggestion I think perhaps the suggestion was to bring up the current web page and then cut-n-paste from it into a new location. All

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] vc load

2013-04-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Karl Berry wrote: Apparently loggerhead is started once by rc and lives until the system reboots (251 days and counting). I suppose some kind of balance finally got tipped. Sure looking forward to Bob's reboot program completing. Each of the VMs has its own set of quirks that I am learning

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] savannah git seems to have just died

2013-04-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Aharon Robbins wrote: Hi. I did a push into the gawk repo a few minutes ago (it's now 14:21 EDT) and it worked, but now trying to do a new push, or a pull, I'm getting: $ git pull Permission denied (publickey). fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly Can someone look into this

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Next Savannah VM system upgrade - internal

2013-04-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: Problem 2: internal:~# dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc /usr/sbin/grub-probe: warn: disk does not exist, so falling back to partition device /dev/xvda2. ... I imagine this problem is due to it being a Xen domU. The previous VM mgt doesn't have grub installed. I chatted

[Savannah-hackers-public] Next Savannah VM system upgrade - frontend

2013-04-05 Thread Bob Proulx
I am going to start the upgrade flow for frontend and reboot it in a few minutes. Nothing has been done to it yet. It has been up for a year. Just getting it ready for the upgrade. It should reboot quickly. Bob

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Next Savannah VM system upgrade - frontend

2013-04-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: I am going to start the upgrade flow for frontend and reboot it in a few minutes. Nothing has been done to it yet. It has been up for a year. Just getting it ready for the upgrade. It should reboot quickly. Due to other urgent events unrelated to frontend I missed

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Next Savannah VM system upgrade - frontend

2013-04-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Topic: Zope I have mostly upgraded frontend. Most importantly this includes Apache2 and in general all of the subsystem components. frontend:~# cat /etc/debian_version 6.0.7 But I ran across something that raised questions. The machine has Zope installed from when it was Lenny 5.0. Zope

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Next Savannah VM system upgrade - frontend

2013-04-08 Thread Bob Proulx
I have mostly upgraded frontend. Most importantly this includes Apache2 and in general all of the subsystem components. A quick status summary: frontend:~# apt-show-versions |grep -v -e uptodate libdb4.5 4.5.20-13 installed: No available version in archive openssh-client/squeeze

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Next Savannah VM system upgrade - frontend

2013-04-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Karl Berry wrote: 1) Can you figure out enough Zope that you can extract the content? That is what is needed, so that it can be a starting place for a sane wiki. Sorry that I haven't even started looking at it. Soon. And then there is Aljosha Papsch's work at grabbing the current state of

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] MTA problems on internal

2013-04-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Hi Ward, Ward Vandewege wrote: It's only mail to r...@internal.savannah.gnu.org that was stuck. That mail is configured to be forwarded to savannah-reports-priv...@gnu.org via /etc/aliases. But exim on internal didn't know that internal.savannah.gnu.org was its own domain/hostname. I

[Savannah-hackers-public] VM vcs upgraded (mostly)

2013-04-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Summary: Tonight I upgraded VM vcs. Mostly. I will keep chipping away at things until they are completely through. I spot checked cvs, hg, git, and mercurial using their various web interfaces. All appeared to be working. Please report any problems if something is not working. Does anyone

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] VM vcs upgraded (mostly)

2013-04-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Ineiev wrote: I can't update anonymous checkout of web pages for `www' and `gnun'; cvs update says: cvs [update aborted]: unrecognized auth response from cvs.sv.gnu.org: cvs: unrecognized option '--allow-root-regexp=^/srv/cvs/sources/.*$' I see reports from two others that bzr+ssh isn't

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] VM vcs upgraded (mostly)

2013-04-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Ineiev wrote: Another issue: in `www' web pages, cvs commit says: Failed to exec cvs: No such file or directory at /usr/local/bin/sv_membersh line 110. Thanks for the report. That is actually just another face of the same issue. The cvs that had been installed was locally patched. The

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] VM vcs upgraded (mostly)

2013-04-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Anon cvs through the pserver should be working again. Please try it and let us know! In order to solve the problem as quickly as possible I asked Nico to restore /usr/bin/cvs from backup from last week. That restored the patched version. Now we can more calmly deal with the issue. Bob

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] VM vcs upgraded (mostly)

2013-04-29 Thread Bob Proulx
I am working through the various notifications. I see that the vcs /etc/cron.hourly/bzr_commit_mail_notification script is producing errors. /etc/cron.hourly/bzr_commit_mail_notification: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/src/bzr-hookless-email/bzr_hookless_email.py, line 328, in

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] bzr commit notifications [was Re: VM vcs upgraded (mostly)]

2013-05-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Glenn Morris wrote: I'm pining for commit notifications... Sorry! Maybe try asking baz...@lists.canonical.com for help? Karl suggested asking on gnu-prog-discuss. They'll probably want to know what the versions of bzr etc were before and after the upgrade. Did you upgrade to bzr 2.6? In

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] bzr commit notifications [was Re: VM vcs upgraded (mostly)]

2013-05-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Glenn Morris wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: In theory bzr wasn't upgraded. The package manager thinks it has 2.1.2-1 installed and there isn't an upgrade for it in Stable so there shouldn't have been any changes. The log doesn't show any changes to it. However bzr itself reports 2.6b2 so I

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] bzr commit notifications [was Re: VM vcs upgraded (mostly)]

2013-05-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: Glenn Morris wrote: I think that may have removed the revision_history attribute that bzr-hookless uses. It was deprecated in 2.5: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr-hookless-email/+bug/988195 has a possible patch. Thank you for doing that research! That is very

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] bzr commit notifications [was Re: VM vcs upgraded (mostly)]

2013-05-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Eli Zaretskii wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Did you get any notifications from it? Yes, 3 minutes before you sent this message. Does that sound right? Yes. I ran it manually so I could see any output without waiting for the cron mail to deliver it. Then sent that message. I assume

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] bzr commit notifications [was Re: VM vcs upgraded (mostly)]

2013-05-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Glenn Morris wrote: If you have time, would you be willing to try the patch from https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr-hookless-email/+bug/533009/comments/3 - msg.add_inline_attachment(diff_val, diff_name) + msg.add_inline_attachment(diff_val, diff_name, 'x-diff') It is just a piece of trivia

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] bzr commit notifications [was Re: VM vcs upgraded (mostly)]

2013-05-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Glenn Morris wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: I added that change to the script. I imagine we will need to wait for the next commit before there is a notification. If you would keep an eye open and report on the result that would be great. Seems ok, thanks. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Dragora

2013-05-09 Thread Bob Proulx
anthony wrote: I am a LMDE user since the beginning. I have always wanted to run just straight Debian and yet the inability to change some things have kept me from it Have been doing all I can to install Dragora and it is not simple as I am doing it from a usb stick and cannot seem to

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] [gnu.org #826036] zope restore on frontend.savannah

2013-05-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Nicolás César via RT wrote: Give us a day and I'll restore the tapes labeled 2012-07-19 Sorry for the inconveniences! Thanks for working the problem. Sorry for the hassle! Bob

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] bzr commit notifications

2013-05-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Glenn Morris wrote: Recently Savannah bzr was updated to bzr 2.6. This breaks the bzr-hookless-email script that was being used for commit notifications. [1] To try and fix this, I suggest installing the bzr-email plugin. `apt-get install bzr-email' (the version from Debian testing is the

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] [Savannah-hackers-private] [gnu.org #830937] Correction Request gnu.org (savannah)

2013-05-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Ward Vandewege via RT wrote: Could you purge the spam from the bug linked below? http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?28247 Karl organized the deletion of it. It's done now. Bob

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] plesase, help me

2013-05-27 Thread Bob Proulx
van quang wrote: I am unable reading SMS message from Nokia 3110c cell phone I can send SMS success, but getsms failure. You have reached the mailing list for people who hack on Savannah. Savannah is the software forge for people committed to free software. The web site, the version control

[Savannah-hackers-public] web.vcs.savannah timeouts

2013-07-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Dora has noticed and reported that the viewcvs interface has been producing timeouts at various times. http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/ I put together a very brute force check by running wget against one of the pages every five minutes and I have seen this so far. During the times

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] web.vcs.savannah timeouts

2013-07-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: Just now I added a quick check to run a 'ps -efH' every five minutes too. Perhaps that will show something interesting in tonight's overnight run. And in the last night's run I am seeing very large loads being recorded on vcs. I can see load averages up in the 20+ range

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] ikiwiki on savannah

2013-08-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Karl Berry wrote: Bob, Michael, John, Ineiev, anyone - Hi Karl! So, about getting ikiwiki installed, so the savannah documentation wiki can be updated again and we can move forward. Yes. This task has been hanging out for a while now. I was out of commission for a while. But then

[Savannah-hackers-public] frontend VM rebooted

2013-08-20 Thread Bob Proulx
After 491 days of uptime I rebooted frontend.savannah just now. Nico stood by as a safety net. No trouble. All good. Bob

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Old Wiki Is Offline

2013-08-21 Thread Bob Proulx
The problem is the same one Karl reported back in May: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-hackers-public/2013-05/msg00028.html Then I ran /etc/init.d/zope2.10 restart. (Several times, killing old processes, etc.) The results were quite mysterious, with the wiki failing to come up at

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] our wiki status

2013-08-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Karl Berry wrote: - the ikiwiki package is installed and basically configured on frontend. Thank you Karl for doing this work! It's awesome! Bob

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] ok to install locales package on vcs.sv?

2013-09-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Anyone know of a reason why I should not `apt-get install locales' on vcs.sv? I'd leave the default locale as None, as it is now. I think every system should have the locales package installed. So definitely installing it is the right thing to do. (BTW: PAM uses the default locale setting for

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] rsync process load on vcs

2013-09-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Karl Berry wrote: I know Bob et al. were gathering stats on frontend, but I didn't see anything on vcs. The firewalls on the machines were blocking me from setting it up on vcs. I am going to open the firewalls to allow it. Originally I didn't understand how they were set up. But now I

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] rsync process load on vcs

2013-09-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: Karl Berry wrote: I know Bob et al. were gathering stats on frontend, but I didn't see anything on vcs. The firewalls on the machines were blocking me from setting it up on vcs. I am going to open the firewalls to allow it. Originally I didn't understand how they were

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] savane git cannot be committed

2013-10-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Karl Berry wrote: To log into vcs, first log into mgt. He can't. He doesn't have a static IP address (as far as I know -- Tomasz, if I'm wrong, let me know). I asked him to ask sysadmin for an account on fencepost but I don't think that has happened yet. But should be able to get to

[Savannah-hackers-public] zwiki and zope on frontend

2013-10-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Now that ikiwiki is in full swing (yay) and zwiki is now no longer being used I think this means that the custom zope installation on frontend can be dropped. I would like to do this and return it to the stock version, by uninstalling zope. That will be one obstacle removed from the upgrade

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] savane git cannot be committed

2013-10-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Tomasz Konojacki wrote: Additionally, I'm not sure why, but origin was set to git://git.sv.gnu.org/administration/savane.git which doesn't seem to be right, That is the anonymous read-only access path. You can clone and read using that URL but you can't write using it. You can make patches

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] savane git cannot be committed

2013-10-10 Thread Bob Proulx
I suppose /usr/src/savane on vcs isn't used for anything and and should therefore just be deleted. (But I'm not willing to go that far just now.) I concur that /usr/src/savane isn't used. It is behind the HEAD of that branch. It is just causing confusion. I moved it out of the way.

[Savannah-hackers-public] Savane Source Repositories Decoded

2013-10-10 Thread Bob Proulx
The recent thread about savane checked out working copies had me looking through the source repositories. Initially I was quite confused by the similarly named version control copies. There are *three* different savane related repositories. After some research I now understand why and wanted to

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] [Savannah-cvs] [51] /usr/src/savane is no longer the live working copy.

2013-10-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Karl Berry wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: /usr/src/savane is no longer the live working copy. Sure it is. Unless you changed every setting on the system to point somewhere else, which I really doubt :). You are correct. And nope. I was confused by the copy on vcs. It was the copy on vcs

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] gcl-commits list

2013-10-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Camm Maguire wrote: Greetings! Gcl recently switched to git, and now the commits list appears dead. What to do? You came to the right place. I will fix it. Done. It wasn't configured. Should be configured now. Let us know if you have further problems. I also set your unnamed git

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] [Savannah-cvs] [51] /usr/src/savane is no longer the live working copy.

2013-10-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Karl Berry wrote: I hope none of them have any more copies! I just checked. mgt and (now) vcs don't have a /usr/src/savane, but dl and int do. I don't know if it is actually used in either case. I don't believe any of those other VMs should be using any copy of savane on their local

[Savannah-hackers-public] [task #12900] Git notification mails for GNU Autoconf Archive

2013-10-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Update of task #12900 (project administration): Percent Complete: 10% = 100% Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #2: Done. Let

[Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah ticket notification addresses

2013-10-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Here is a rhetorical question. The Savannah Administration project on Savannah has two ticket submission portals. One is Support and the other is Task. Submissions to Support go to the savannah-hackers mailing list.[1] Submissions to Task go to the savannah-hackers-public mailing list. Does

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah ticket notification addresses

2013-10-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Hi Sylvain! Good to see you on the list again. Sylvain wrote: In theory, what I setup was: - savannah-help-public = user support requests Support for punctual help goes there - savannah-hackers-public = discussions among Savannah Hackers Long-term Tasks go there Of course users tend

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah VMs upgraded to latest Debian 7.2 point release

2013-10-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Sylvain wrote: 'download' should be easy to upgrade for user access: just basic sftp/rsync/scp access through sv_membersh. I am just a little tenative because there have been some surprises in the past. :-/ For Apache access, remember to check whether mirmon and audio-video.gnu.org (http

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] End license

2013-10-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Hello Angelica, Angelica Burgos wrote: I would like to end license agreement because i was hacked n i did not agree to this ty My email is angelicador...@icloud.com What license agreement are you talking about? How can we help you? Bob

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] End license

2013-10-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Hello Angelica, Angelica Burgos wrote: What license agreement are you talking about? How can we help you? Look I found this site on my phone my phone keeps changing settings and they keep accessing my facebook and apps I need u too look into this I have an iPhone 4 ios7 with sprint # is

[Savannah-hackers-public] [task #12900] Git notification mails for GNU Autoconf Archive

2013-10-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Update of task #12900 (project administration): Open/Closed: Closed = Open ___ Follow-up Comment #4: Hmm... I will look into the problem. It looks like it should be working to me. Give

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah VMs upgraded to latest Debian 7.2 point release

2013-10-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Hi Sylvain, Sylvain wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: lastest Debian point release 7.2 that released last week. Mostly. Debian 7 or Debian 6, actually? Did I say 7.2? I was doing all of my 7.2 machines at the same time. This was Debian 6.0.8 for the VMs. Debian 7 is on my list for those

[Savannah-hackers-public] [task #12900] Git notification mails for GNU Autoconf Archive

2013-11-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Update of task #12900 (project administration): Status: In Progress = Done Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #6: Thanks for

[Savannah-hackers-public] download VM hold status?

2013-11-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Savannah Hackers, On the download VM I see this: download:~# dpkg --get-selections | grep -c hold 91 Out of: download:~# grep-status -s Package -n install ok installed | wc -l 242 That is a lot of held packages. I think it unlikely that it is in a desired state. Some of the held

[Savannah-hackers-public] rrdtool pinned to v1.2 on internal

2013-11-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Savannah Hackers, The rrdtool on VM internal is pinned at version 1.2. Does anyone have information on why? Lenny 5 had rrdtool 1.3.1. Squeeze has 1.4.3. So this is pinning the system to quite an old version. I am using rrdtool for some pingstats graphs on another system and have for several

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] rrdtool pinned to v1.2 on internal

2013-11-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: I needed it for Cacti at a point, because there were issues with newer rrdtool and current Cacti (despite using Debian stable packages). I think the Cacti instance was removed, so the pinning can go away as well :) Plus Cacti fixed this issue a while ago. Okay. I

[Savannah-hackers-public] [task #12961] Commas in login page

2013-12-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Update of task #12961 (project administration): Category: Approved Projects to be Reviewed = System ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?12961

[Savannah-hackers-public] [task #12961] Commas in login page

2014-01-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Update of task #12961 (project administration): Status: In Progress = Done Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #6: This has

[Savannah-hackers-public] Stay in https after login?

2014-01-02 Thread Bob Proulx
There is a checkbox on the login.php page. [x] Stay in secure (https) mode after login The presented form may be accessed by either http or https. It defaults to checked which is good. The form submit action is always to an https URL which is also good. But then regardless of the setting of

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Stay in https after login?

2014-01-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Sylvain wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: To me this is a bug. Which part of it? There were several things mentioned. The only non-sensible one : that _un_checking 'stay in https' stays in https nonetheless. Well... That technically may be a bug but it is one of those bugs that would never

[Savannah-hackers-public] [task #13025] Uploading SVN dump without forge administration support

2014-01-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Follow-up Comment #5, task #13025 (project administration): BTW, how come that I cannot see this item in the my items link? It doesn't show up there because Karl closed it when he responded to the issue. ___ Reply to this item at:

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