Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Sending email via fencepost fails
> From: Ian Kelling > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , sysad...@gnu.org, > savannah-hackers-public@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 10:19:56 -0400 > > "Alfred M. Szmidt" writes: > > >But the gripe about the FSF Status page is real: lately I find it less > >and less useful in such cases. Which is too bad. > > > > Just to give a small shout, I agree. > > Sorry about that. I will try to be more diligent in updating it and > communicate this to the rest of the team. Thank you!
Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Sending email via fencepost fails
"Alfred M. Szmidt" writes: > Sometimes, some of us subscribed here, can also ping the FSF admins in > other ways -- sysadmin@ is not a list that is easily subscribed to > AFAIK. That is right, there is no public fsf sysadmin mailing list, just the sysad...@gnu.org and @fsf.org which both go to our request tracker instance. There used to be but it stopped being actively used sometime before I joined fsf about 5 years ago. It is possible to bring it back if that makes sense. -- Ian Kelling | Senior Systems Administrator, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: B125 F60B 7B28 7FF6 A2B7 DF8F 170A F0E2 9542 95DF https://fsf.org | https://gnu.org
Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Sending email via fencepost fails
"Alfred M. Szmidt" writes: >But the gripe about the FSF Status page is real: lately I find it less >and less useful in such cases. Which is too bad. > > Just to give a small shout, I agree. Sorry about that. I will try to be more diligent in updating it and communicate this to the rest of the team. -- Ian Kelling | Senior Systems Administrator, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: B125 F60B 7B28 7FF6 A2B7 DF8F 170A F0E2 9542 95DF https://fsf.org | https://gnu.org
Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Sending email via fencepost fails
Sometimes, some of us subscribed here, can also ping the FSF admins in other ways -- sysadmin@ is not a list that is easily subscribed to AFAIK.
Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Sending email via fencepost fails
> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 17:10:45 -0600 > From: Bob Proulx > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Since about half an hour ago, I cannot send email via fencepost port > > 587: I get "connection refused". > > Logging into fencepost via SSH does work. > > > > What is the problem with the SMTP service on fencepost? Can this be > > fixed, please? > > > > P.S. And if this is due to some maintenance, why don't I see anything > > on the https://hostux.social/@fsfstatus page? > > I know you CC:'d sysadmin and that is the right place to ask about > fencepost problems. But regarding the TO: to this group none of the > Savannah Hackers have any access to fencepost. As far as the Savannah > group goes we can only suffer along with you and comiserate along with > you concerning any fencepost issue. I addressed my message to savannah-hackers-public in case the problems I experienced are due to some wider issue with gnu.org machines, not local to fencepost. Basically, given that the fsfstatus page seems to be... ahm... less functional than I'd expect, I consider savannah-hackers-public to be the closest replacement -- a bunch of people who have interest in, and some in-depth knowledge of, what is going on in the gnu.org domains and systems. I apologize if that was wrong.
Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Sending email via fencepost fails
Hello Eli, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Since about half an hour ago, I cannot send email via fencepost port > 587: I get "connection refused". > Logging into fencepost via SSH does work. > > What is the problem with the SMTP service on fencepost? Can this be > fixed, please? > > P.S. And if this is due to some maintenance, why don't I see anything > on the https://hostux.social/@fsfstatus page? I know you CC:'d sysadmin and that is the right place to ask about fencepost problems. But regarding the TO: to this group none of the Savannah Hackers have any access to fencepost. As far as the Savannah group goes we can only suffer along with you and comiserate along with you concerning any fencepost issue. There is a fencepost-us...@gnu.org mailing list presumably for fencepost users to discuss all things fencepost. However it has been converted to be a notification of aliases changes list almost exclusively. I haven't seen any other posting there in the last year. At least not since April. I don't know if anyone actively reads that mailing list anymore. Your email to sysadmin will create an RT ticket. They always have a couple of hundred RT tickets in their queue though. It might take some time for them to process down to that ticket. Honestly on fencepost something probably happened and then got fixed comletely asynchronously to the problem reports about it. I don't see any chatter on the IRC channels about fencepost but as a general comment I often see exim get snarled up because of some problem with spamassassin or other getting broken by a spam message and then a restart is needed to clear the problem. AFAICT all of that noticing and restarting is fully manual. I expect that or something like it is what happened on fencepost. Bob signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Sending email via fencepost fails
But the gripe about the FSF Status page is real: lately I find it less and less useful in such cases. Which is too bad. Just to give a small shout, I agree.
Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Sending email via fencepost fails
> From: Eli Zaretskii > Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 16:39:53 +0300 > Cc: sysad...@gnu.org > > Since about half an hour ago, I cannot send email via fencepost port > 587: I get "connection refused". > Logging into fencepost via SSH does work. > > What is the problem with the SMTP service on fencepost? Can this be > fixed, please? > > P.S. And if this is due to some maintenance, why don't I see anything > on the https://hostux.social/@fsfstatus page? I sent that 4 hours ago, and in the meantime the problem disappeared. Kudos to whoever labored on fixing it. But the gripe about the FSF Status page is real: lately I find it less and less useful in such cases. Which is too bad.
