[Toolserver-l] external SMTP connections now prohibited

2007-05-23 Thread River Tarnell
hello, after a broken mailer caused hemlock to be CBL-listed, i have disallowed outgoing SMTP (port 25) connections. if you want to send mail, you should use /usr/lib/sendmail (like a normal UNIX program), or speak SMTP to localhost (which is allowed and will accept your mail). - river.

[Toolserver-l] [IMPORTANT] disk quotas are coming back

2007-06-09 Thread River Tarnell
hello, disk quotas will be reinstated shortly. the default per-user soft quota will be 256MB. the hard quota will be 512MB. the grace period will be one week. this works as follows: your disk space usage should be below 256MB. however, if you temporarily need more space, you can use more, up

Re: [Toolserver-l] [IMPORTANT] disk quotas are coming back

2007-06-09 Thread River Tarnell
Misza13: What about automatic notifications/warnings of excessive usage? Will they be set up as well or should we write our own scripts? there will be some sort of automatic notification, both on login and by mail. - river. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[Toolserver-l] DNS aliases for databases now available

2007-07-12 Thread River Tarnell
hello, it's now possible to connect to a database server using names of the form database-p.db.ts.wikimedia.org, for example: enwiki-p.db.ts.wikimedia.org roa-rupwiki-p.db.ts.wikimedia.org these resolve to the database server holding that database. the sql-s* aliases still work as well.

[Toolserver-l] sql script

2007-07-15 Thread River Tarnell
hello, i wrote a short script: sql. now you can run sql enwiki_p on the command line and it'll automatically connect you to the right database. - river. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Toolserver-l mailing list

[Toolserver-l] commons now available on yarrow

2007-07-16 Thread River Tarnell
hello, a replicated commonswiki_p is now available on yarrow (sql-s1/sql-s3) as well as zedler (sql-s2). - river. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Toolserver-l mailing list Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Toolserver-l] s2 down?

2007-09-22 Thread River Tarnell
Sean Whitton: My only tool that uses MySQL properly is coughing and throwing my hastily scribbled error code from the status file that s2 is down. What's wrong with it? it's not down. WARN is only a warning (which you could display to your users, if you like), not an error. - river.

[Toolserver-l] special projects server (asterisk, etc.)

2007-10-07 Thread River Tarnell
so it's fairly common that users want to host larger projects on the toolserver, but for various reasons we haven't been comfortable doing that on hemlock. i thought about this a bit, and came up with this: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolserver/Special_projects if you're interested, or

Re: [Toolserver-l] special projects server (asterisk, etc.)

2007-10-07 Thread River Tarnell
The Fearow: Would this be an on application system where you are allowed more than the standard memory/processor/etc limits? yes, although obviously there are still limits based on available hardware. Also, to double check, this would be running a lot of intensive stuff and such? not

Re: [Toolserver-l] special projects server (asterisk, etc.)

2007-10-07 Thread River Tarnell
Kalan: Is it the problem only with large projects like that one requiring Asterisk, while all other stuff will remain on hemlock? anything that's currently allowed on hemlock would stay there. - river. pgpVqeNyV9IWq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Toolserver-l] maintenance notice: user databases

2007-10-17 Thread River Tarnell
River Tarnell: user databases will become read only tonight UTC while they are migrated to a different server. this is now finished. - river. pgpTU6u4h0I75.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Toolserver-l mailing list Toolserver-l

[Toolserver-l] confluence, mediawiki; infra.ts URLs changed

2007-10-17 Thread River Tarnell
hello, 1: JIRA and FishEye have moved to: - https://jira.ts.wikimedia.org/ - https://fisheye.ts.wikimedia.org/ 2: as an experiment i've set up a Confluence install at http://confluence.ts.wikimedia.org (SSL also available). i don't know if anyone's interested in using this for their

Re: [Toolserver-l] toolserver wiki

2007-10-18 Thread River Tarnell
Kalan: Could you change url's from /view/Page_name to traditional /wiki/Page_name ? that would give URLs like http://wiki.ts.wikimedia.org/wiki/Foo - i don't really like the double repetition of wiki. i fixed the broken redirect, though. - river. pgpjQtWwltrww.pgp

Re: [Toolserver-l] toolserver wiki

2007-10-19 Thread River Tarnell
Nikola Smolenski: Could you make translations of the former welcome page available somewhere so that they could also be put on the wiki? http://tools.wikimedia.de/startsite/ - river. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [Toolserver-l] toolserver wiki

2007-10-19 Thread River Tarnell
Iradigalesc: I can't confirm my email; The address is correct but I don't received any mail when I registered my user at the wiki. Anyone had the same problem? sorry, sendmail wasn't running. mail should be working now. - river. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [Toolserver-l] confluence, mediawiki; infra.ts URLs changed

2007-10-21 Thread River Tarnell
Simetrical: Not unless you disappear for a while and your tools break, that is? the correct way to solve this is to not have important tools owned by one person, but by a set of maintainers. - river signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [Toolserver-l] Content restriction

2007-10-22 Thread River Tarnell
Mohd Tarmizi: What kind of content is allowed to be hosted at the httpd? Are copyrighted materials OK? of course, as long as you have permission to distribute them, and they follow the rules (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolserver/Rules). - river. signature.asc Description: This

Re: [Toolserver-l] Database Query Service

2007-10-23 Thread River Tarnell
Sean Whitton: How about a web-based form that can do SELECTs? it'll cause too much load, because people will run stupid or broken queries. - river. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Toolserver-l mailing

Re: [Toolserver-l] single signon for websites

2007-10-25 Thread River Tarnell
VasilievVV: It uses LDAP, see http://wiki.ts.wikimedia.org/view/Special:Version. the backend is LDAP, we also use a piece of middleware called Crowd http://www.atlassian.com/software/crowd/. - river. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[Toolserver-l] feature request: put new users into LDAP groups

2007-10-25 Thread River Tarnell
hello, i'd like to enable creation of LDAP users from MediaWiki, but i need new LDAP users to become members of some existing LDAP (not MediaWiki) groups. it would be nice if this was possible :) (or maybe it is already, but i missed the option.) - river. signature.asc

Re: [Toolserver-l] feature request: put new users into LDAP groups

2007-10-25 Thread River Tarnell
River Tarnell: [snip] sorry, this was meant to go to a different list. - river. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Toolserver-l mailing list Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org

[Toolserver-l] stable server candidates

2007-11-03 Thread River Tarnell
hello, to justify buying a stable server, we need people willing to use it. so, if anyone is interested in maintaining stable tools, please add your name somewhere (i suggest [[m:Toolserver/Stable server/Candidates]] as a good place). the initial proposal suggested at least two maintainers

Re: [Toolserver-l] stable server candidates

2007-11-03 Thread River Tarnell
James Hare: stable as in stable versions? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolserver/Stable_server - river. A: Because it disrupts the natural flow of conversation. Q: Why is top-posting bad? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [Toolserver-l] stable server candidates

2007-11-04 Thread River Tarnell
i have borrowed ragweed from Wikimedia to do testing of the stable server on (e.g. figuring out how things are going to work). so, if you're interested in testing it, and have a candidate project, let me know... - river. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

[Toolserver-l] stable server

2007-11-06 Thread River Tarnell
so not many people seem interested in moving their projects to the stable server. are the requirements too strict, or do people just not see the need? - river. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___

Re: [Toolserver-l] Why I refuse to use confluence.ts, jira.ts, sso.ts, etc.

2007-11-06 Thread River Tarnell
Purodha: Then I found that there is a user page in confluence which displays an e-mail address of mine, which I thought I had entered only in order to retieve a forgotten password, if need be. It does show the e-mail address, even while I am logged out. That means, the e-mail address is being

Re: [Toolserver-l] stable server

2007-11-07 Thread River Tarnell
E: I see that when looking at the wiki a few days ago, it said that the tool we submit to the stable server will not be maintained by us, rather a developer (of some kind). the idea is that one of the developers would be the original owner of the tool. - river. signature.asc

[Toolserver-l] toolserver.org

2007-11-07 Thread River Tarnell
hello, we have bought the domain toolserver.org with a view to using it for the toolserver, e.g. http://toolserver.org/~username/. if anyone has any comments (for/against), please say now. - river. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[Toolserver-l] downtime tuesday morning

2007-11-19 Thread River Tarnell
hello, there will be some downtime Tuesday morning as changes are being made to the knams network. the toolserver IPs will also change during this time. - river. ___ Toolserver-l mailing list Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Toolserver-l] Stable server editcounter

2007-11-21 Thread River Tarnell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Presuming it's going to be widely used, we might as well plan it here -- anybody else have structural suggestions for the tool? at the risk of starting a language argument, i'm against doing it in PHP. i'd suggest Python: * Lots of people know it (although perhaps

Re: [Toolserver-l] Stable server, a few questions

2007-11-22 Thread River Tarnell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) Can we, from the above list, also say which tools are the most useful (ie. without which some projects would just break, I am especially thinking Commons here) possibly someone could, but not me ;) We could probably get 10,000 lines of the

Re: [Toolserver-l] stable editcounter

2007-11-26 Thread River Tarnell
Mohd Tarmizi wrote: I'm interested in providing a translation. I assume that the translation files is in i18n/? What's i18n.properties? I've never seen that kind of file (I'm not a Java programmer). this is a Java properties file; when used for translation, it's quite similar to MediaWiki

Re: [Toolserver-l] stable editcounter

2007-11-26 Thread River Tarnell
Kalan wrote: This is not enough. 'Editstats for User' has do be more narrow why? and bars should be not higher than 15px, not 100px like now i don't understand; the bars are 18px high at the moment, not 100px. are you sure you're not viewing a cached version? what is the URL to the image

Re: [Toolserver-l] stable editcounter

2007-11-26 Thread River Tarnell
Huji wrote: But anonymous checkout doesn't let us to commit changes, does it? no, because we don't want just anyone being able to commit ;-) if you like, i can add you as a maintainer for it (experience with J2EE would be a good prerequisite...) - river. signature.asc Description:

[Toolserver-l] downtime

2007-12-15 Thread River Tarnell
hello, some extended maintenance is currently taking place on the NFS server for /home, so hemlock is offline. this shouldn't take more than a few hours. i'll post a full explanation when it's finished. - river. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Toolserver-l] Limiting memory of a process

2007-12-28 Thread River Tarnell
Davide: D Is there a method to limit the memory that a process have? So i am not D rerunning it once every day? you can't give a process less memory than it needs, it'll stop working. in this case, i suggest asking the pywikipedia developers to make their programs use a bit less memory. -

Re: [Toolserver-l] Windows toolserver

2008-02-05 Thread River Tarnell
Osama KM: OK I'm learning C# at the moment ,and I guess running my C# bot on Windows is OK too better (than Mono on Linux) no, this shouldn't make any difference as far as i know. many people run .NET programs under mono with no problems. (that is, after all, one of the main purposes of .NET.)

Re: [Toolserver-l] Windows toolserver

2008-02-05 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brianna Laugher: BL On 06/02/2008, River Tarnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: any other comments? (please, avoid comments about why we should/shouldn't use Windows.) BL Why? because the purpose is not to discuss whether we should do it, but whether

[Toolserver-l] making your home directory world writable is a bad idea

2008-04-14 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 once a month or so, someone complains that suddenly, ssh won't let them log in. usually, this is because they made their home directory world writable. i have no idea what would possess someone to do this (since, among other things, it would let

[Toolserver-l] [SECURITY] Debian OpenSSL bug may affect cryptographic keys generated or used on hemlock

2008-05-13 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 anyone who has used hemlock to generate cryptographic keys (e.g. SSL certificates or SSH keys), or used keys generated elsewhere on hemlock, should be aware of this Debian security advisory:

Re: [Toolserver-l] [SECURITY] Debian OpenSSL bug may affect cryptographic keys generated or used on hemlock

2008-05-14 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Garrett: Indeed. Server admin log says a tool was run to check for vulnerable keys, and those users who had vulnerable keys were contacted personally by Brion. no, this was for the subversion server. Wikimedia admins don't touch the

Re: [Toolserver-l] [SECURITY] Debian OpenSSL bug may affect cryptographic keys generated or used on hemlock

2008-05-14 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carl F?rstenberg: but surely, can't all the keys people are using for logging in been compromized? i'm not sure what you're asking here. as far as i understand the problem, using an SSH key to log into an affected server does not compromise the

Re: [Toolserver-l] [SECURITY] Debian OpenSSL bug may affect cryptographic keys generated or used on hemlock

2008-05-14 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Peeks: I've copied dowkd.pl to /tmp on hemlock for those who'd rather copy it from there than download a 4MB file over and over again :). i'll reply to the rest of this mail later, but for now i'll just point out that if you run random

[Toolserver-l] [IMPORTANT] some users' SSH keys have been disabled

2008-05-14 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, per [0], i have disabled the authorized_keys of users with affected keys. if you can no longer log into hemlock, you should contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] and provide a new public key, generated on a system which is not using the affected version of

Re: [Toolserver-l] [Toolserver-announce] [IMPORTANT] some users' SSH keys have been disabled

2008-05-14 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 to be clear: just because your key wasn't detected as broken doesn't mean it isn't - the tool can only detect most broken keys, not all of them. if your key was generated on an affected Debian or Ubuntu system, you still need to regenerate it.

[Toolserver-l] toolserver.org

2008-05-27 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hello, toolserver.org can now be used for SSH logins (login.toolserver.org), URLs (http://toolserver.org/~username/), and email ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). moving of other services (e.g. JIRA) will happen later. - river. -BEGIN PGP

Re: [Toolserver-l] toolserver.org

2008-05-27 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Collins: At any time in the near future will the old ts.wikimedia.de and tools.wikimedia.de (or whatever they really are) become invalidated? tools.wikimedia.de will always be valid, but it will probably turn into a redirect to the new domain.

Re: [Toolserver-l] toolserver.org

2008-05-28 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marcin Cieslak: What about http://stable.ts.wikimedia.org/editcount/ ? http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-l/2008-April/001328.html - scroll down to '3. new stable server'. - river. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [Toolserver-l] My account is expiring

2008-06-01 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bertrand GRONDIN: Why don't I receive this warning message. this message is displayed every time you log in. - river. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (SunOS)

Re: [Toolserver-l] My account is expiring

2008-06-01 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andre Karwath: Yes, I've seen them many times ;-) But I still do not know what I can do to extend my account. you don't need to do anything unless someone tells you to. since DaB has been very busy with other things recently, he hasn't had time

Re: [Toolserver-l] Blog: Comment does not show up

2008-06-04 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Landscheidt: when I go to URI:https://journal.toolserver.org/toolserver/entry/on_tools_and_memory_use, fill out the form, answer the simple math question and ei- ther press Preview or Post, I get again to

Re: [Toolserver-l] Toolserver Bug Tracker (JIRA) is non-functional

2008-06-11 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simon Walker: I spoke up about it a few days ago in the IRC channel, but I'm not sure anyone noticed. there's a problem with JIRA stopping to respond to clients since the upgrade (probably related to why it's quite slow) - i'm talking to support at

Re: [Toolserver-l] new login server

2008-06-18 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Schwen: So people who use user-crontabs must check the hostname now? i don't understand what you mean. crontabs are not shared between servers. so just install the crontab on the server you want it to run on. - river. -BEGIN

[Toolserver-l] new PHP configuration on hemlock

2008-07-06 Thread River Tarnell
hi, PHP on hemlock has been changed to use switchboard (a FastCGI PHP wrapper) instead of CGI php. unless any major problems are uncovered, this change will be permanent. if you notice anything strange about PHP since the change, please let me know. - river.

Re: [Toolserver-l] new PHP configuration on hemlock

2008-07-06 Thread River Tarnell
James R.: Trying to access one of the many PHP files in my public_html (e.g. http://toolserver.org/~e/bots.php) is spitting out a 500 Internal Server Error. this seems fine now, probably a temporary problem. - river. ___ Toolserver-l

Re: [Toolserver-l] Solution to allow SSH connexion accros http proxy

2008-07-08 Thread River Tarnell
bayo: * if the login.toolserver.org use 443 for ssh it can work ; port 443 is for SSL HTTP (https), it can't be used for SSH. you should check if the proxy supports the CONNECT method, or else can function as a SOCKS proxy. if not, you probably won't be able to use SSH from there. -

Re: [Toolserver-l] Dump-Mail-Service

2008-07-13 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Platonides: Wouldn't be preferably to have a daemon on the toolserver downloading each new dump (or dumps marked as someone is interested) ? automatically download all dumps is going to use all available disk space very quickly. -

Re: [Toolserver-l] [Toolserver-announce] changes in subversion repositories

2008-07-17 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Misza13: 1. By ask a root (to create a new repo) you mean grabbing one on IRC or does one need to file a JIRA request? either would probably work. 2. After it's created, will fisheye use it automatically instead of ~/subversion or does it have

Re: [Toolserver-l] Uncle Sam wants you to use FastCGI PHP

2008-07-23 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kalan: 2008/7/23 River Tarnell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The second way seems to rely on AddHandler for .php files. I sometimes use rewrite rules to hide the ugly-looking file extension completely, does the described .htaccess in public_html affect them

Re: [Toolserver-l] [Stable] Editcounter

2008-07-27 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mohd Tarmizi: Sometimes stable is not as stable as you think. ;) this is not a problem with the server, but with the tool. - river. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (SunOS)

Re: [Toolserver-l] Apparently, my mail never made it through

2008-07-29 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Max Semenik: I sent the information requested by DaB to create my toolserver account to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but apparently mail server @wikimedia.org hates me - Brion didn't receive my email some time ago. So, can I send the information to

[Toolserver-l] non-PHP FastCGI now available on hemlock

2008-08-16 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, it is now possible to run FastCGI programs in languages other than PHP (for example, Perl or Python) on hemlock. to do this, simply create a standard FastCGI application, and name it whatever.fcgi. the program does not need to be inside

[Toolserver-l] [stable] web server maintenance, Monday 25th August

2008-08-21 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, on Monday, 25th August, between 5:00 and 7:00 UTC, maintenance will be performed on the stable server web server. this is expected to take less than 10 minutes, during which the web server will be unavailable. - river. -BEGIN PGP

Re: [Toolserver-l] [Toolserver-announce] [stable] web server maintenance, Monday 25th August; change of maintenance window

2008-08-25 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 this maintenance was completed successfully. this update is expected to resolve any remaining FastCGI Protocol Error issues; if you see one of these errors, but the script itself is fine, please report it. (you might get this error for a broken

[Toolserver-l] [stable] proxy server maintenance, Monday 1st September

2008-08-26 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, between 05:00 and 07:00 UTC on Monday, 1st September, maintenance will be performed on the stable server caching proxy (cache.stable.toolserver.org). this will involve a restart of the proxy server, which will be unavailable during this time (if

[Toolserver-l] internal server errors

2008-08-26 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, regarding recent internal server errors on slow scripts: i have installed a modified mod_fastcgi on hemlock which seems to have reduced this problem a bit. please, check if your slow scripts still produce so many errors. - river. (PS:

Re: [Toolserver-l] help test a new web server

2008-08-29 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Thiele: My tools work fine, but not having rewrite rules breaks some stuff. No big things, but annoying. I hope, that rewrite rules will be supported before using this server. it's unlikely that RewriteRules will be supported,

Re: [Toolserver-l] [Toolserver-announce] yarrow (s1/s3) unplanned downtime

2008-09-06 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 White Cat: I thought the hardware failure was on a wikimedia server. no, as i explained, the hardware failure was on the switch. both Wikimedia and Toolserver systems are connected to this switch. - river. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [Toolserver-l] [Toolserver-announce] yarrow (s1/s3) unplanned downtime

2008-09-07 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simon Walker: What happened to redundancy? i'm not sure what you're asking here; there has never been any redundancy for host network connections, or for toolserver database replicas, so nothing happened to that - it wasn't there in the first place.

Re: [Toolserver-l] [Toolserver-announce] yarrow (s1/s3) unplanned downtime

2008-09-07 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simon Walker: I was actually talking about connecting the servers to the net down different routes, ie multiple linecards an additional linecard is still several k$, money which could be better spent on more servers, i think. over the next few

[Toolserver-l] reports tool: developers wanted

2008-09-16 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, so the test version of the reports tool is now live at http://stable.toolserver.org/reptest/. the basic framework is in place, but the user interface needs work, and there are no useful reports yet. Wuzur (W) has offered to improve the

[Toolserver-l] [stable] web server issues

2008-09-18 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, there is currently a problem on stable where the web server sometimes stops responding to requests for a period of time. i am working on resolving the issue now; in the meantime, there may be some service interruption for users. -

Re: [Toolserver-l] [Toolserver-announce] [stable] web server issues

2008-09-18 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 River Tarnell: there is currently a problem on stable where the web server sometimes stops responding to requests for a period of time. this should be fixed for the moment. (more work needed to find the actual cause...) - river

[Toolserver-l] [stable] new maintenance schedule

2008-09-24 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (this mail only applies to people with projects on the stable toolserver.) hi, i have revised the maintenance schedule for the stable server. the new schedule provides no additional downtime windows, but reduces the amount of downtime compared to

[Toolserver-l] vandale maintenance, Monday 29th

2008-09-24 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, on Monday 29th, 5AM - 7AM UTC vandale.toolserver.org will be rebooted for maintenance. this will affect the toolserver web appliations (JIRA, MediaWiki, etc). no other services will be affected. the expected time for this maintenance is less

[Toolserver-l] maintenance Monday October 6th: willow (stable), zedler, yarrow, vandale

2008-09-30 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, maintenance will be done on the above servers on Monday, 6th October between 5-7AM UTC. each server will be unavailable for the duration of the maintenance, which should be less than one hour in total. - river. -BEGIN PGP

[Toolserver-l] old stable will be shut down

2008-09-30 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, with the maintenance on Monday, the old stable server (stable.ts.wikimedia.org) will be shut down. old URLs will turn into redirects to the new server. files still present on old stable will be kept, but if you have files there you want to

[Toolserver-l] downtime today (04 Oct): zedler, yarrow, vandale, nightshade, hemlock

2008-10-04 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, today we experienced a 6-second power failure at SARA, the colocation facility where the toolserver is hosted. this affected both us and Wikimedia (who provide our hosting there). this affected all servers except willow (stable), which was

Re: [Toolserver-l] mysqldump

2008-10-06 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mauro Girotto: I need to make a dump of page table (enwiki db) but I'm having a problem. I use the mysqldump utility: mysqldump --skip-lock-tables -u user -p -h sql-s1 enwiki_p page dump.sql dump.sql contains only the table structure, no data.

Re: [Toolserver-l] mysqldump

2008-10-06 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bryan A. P. Pendleton: For the most part, this makes it possible to use a remote table that you have access to in SQL commands in the same way one might normally use a local one. except that it's _much_ slower than local databases. too slow for

[Toolserver-l] s2 replication is not halted

2008-10-24 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, s2 is now replicating again. assuming there are no more problems, it should be up-to-date within 24 hours. - river. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iEYEARECAAYFAkkB94UACgkQIXd7fCuc5vI2yACbBhkiHq10QX8fmxOLu3JPbF9L

[Toolserver-l] phpMyAdmin is now accessible without SSH tunnels

2008-11-07 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, it's now possible to access phpMyAdmin without an SSH tunnel to hemlock. the new URL is https://phpmyadmin.toolserver.org. you will need to authenticate with your toolserver username and LDAP password (*not* MySQL password) to access

[Toolserver-l] setpass and dictionary checks

2008-11-08 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, i understand some people have had problems with the 'dictionary word match' check when setting/changing their LDAP password. i've disabled this check now. it still requires one character from at least three of: upper, lower, digit,

Re: [Toolserver-l] phpMyAdmin is now accessible without SSH tunnels

2008-11-08 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kalan: where can I obtain/create one? https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/LDAP - river. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iD8DBQFJFhb8IXd7fCuc5vIRAvTGAJ9o/SgYTLqhKpJOvtgwde6xxN5CygCeMzBG Nh37/yYHY3cWkgIDNQiG3Ig= =KBy3 -END PGP SIGNATURE-

[Toolserver-l] new web server testing (redux)

2008-11-25 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, in one week i plan to enable the new web server on hemlock. this will hopefully solve the problems people are seeing with long-running scripts. until then, people should test their sites with the new server. you can do this by using

Re: [Toolserver-l] SQL queries

2008-11-27 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ilmari Karonen: That may well be what's happening, but if so, it's a bug in MySQL. Note that both of the queries have identical WHERE clauses. Given that said WHERE clauses match no rows, there's really no reason why any other part of the

Re: [Toolserver-l] [Toolserver-announce] new web server testing (redux)

2008-12-02 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 the new web server is now live. please report any problems. - river. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iD8DBQFJNP4fIXd7fCuc5vIRAlVuAKCz1GHzbOWzrxE53gEA3hz9rhmOIQCfafiJ SYnq82DKyDx8w5QZVJnPN4U= =Boik -END PGP SIGNATURE-

[Toolserver-l] account renewel

2008-12-02 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, the next expiration date for toolserver accounts is 23rd December, 2008. if you want to keep your account past this date, you should send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with toolserver expiration in the subject, and your account name in the body

Re: [Toolserver-l] [Toolserver-announce] account renewel

2008-12-02 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 River Tarnell: Subject: [Toolserver-announce] account renewel of course, this should say renewal. - river. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iD8DBQFJNbKBIXd7fCuc5vIRAnEVAKCih/SVJnKrg0pyAmWrSvJASuf4XgCgmCYb TUBatyM1cRB/+WHfSQSYeEg= =2j4u

Re: [Toolserver-l] Can the Toolserver be used as a repository?

2008-12-07 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gutza: I'm basically looking for a solution which would allow the community of ro.wiki to get involved in this in a rather lax manner, so I would ideally want as few formalities as possible. Therefore, from an access perspective there should

Re: [Toolserver-l] cgi/perl, htaccess and errorlog

2008-12-11 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 seth: 1. How do I run perl scripts on the toolserver? i assume from the subject you're talking about Perl CGI scripts. either put them in ~/public_html/cgi-bin, or put them in ~/public_html and name them with a .cgi extension. in either case they

Re: [Toolserver-l] cgi/perl, htaccess and errorlog

2008-12-12 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Kinzler: I tried another one, too, but bash: cd: /var/log/apache2/: Permission denied We no longer use apache, we are using ZWS now. it's likely he was looking on nightshade here, which does run apache, but as it holds no user tools,

Re: [Toolserver-l] Switchboard/FastCGI on new webserver

2008-12-13 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Thiele: I changed one of my scripts to use FastCGI PHP. Therefore I renamed it to *.phpf. This is described in [1]. this page is obsolete; PHP has been using FastCGI by default for the last few months. i removed the content of the page

[Toolserver-l] account confirmation

2008-12-14 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, below is the list of accounts which will be extended past the expiration date. if your account is not listed, you should ensure you followed the directions in the previous announcement. if you sent mail and yet your account is not listed, you

Re: [Toolserver-l] [Toolserver-announce] account confirmation

2008-12-14 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 River Tarnell: below is the list of accounts which will be extended past the expiration date. to clarify: this is the list of accounts which *will* be extended, and will *not* expire. if your name is on the list, you do not need to do anything

Re: [Toolserver-l] account confirmation

2008-12-16 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jan, please read: https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-170 you'll probably find you get a faster response to tickets if you can open them in English rather than German. i understand not all of our users are native English speakers, but both of

[Toolserver-l] maintenance 28th to 31st Dec: all servers

2008-12-18 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 at some point between these two dates (exact date isn't yet known), Wikimedia will performance maintenance at the knams hosting facility, where the Toolserver is hosted. this will involve downtime for all servers as we will be moving to a new rack.

Re: [Toolserver-l] PHPMyAdmin

2008-12-21 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jan Luca: I can't connect to https://phpmyadmin.toolserver.org/. Why? should be fixed now. - river. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iD8DBQFJTkBEIXd7fCuc5vIRAuDSAJ0f+RoaWvdhiBKwCGsLNy4BTd7kBwCfZcpG qvUktHhM9ENp0SstuEidc+c= =NcJW -END PGP

Re: [Toolserver-l] [Toolserver-announce] account confirmation

2008-12-22 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bertrand GRONDIN: Please, extend my account : grondin as well well, i did, but next time *please* follow the instructions, because it makes things a lot easier on the admin side (and the toolserver is very short on admin time at the moment).

Re: [Toolserver-l] maintenance 28th to 31st Dec: all servers

2008-12-27 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wikimedia will performance maintenance at the knams hosting facility, where the Toolserver is hosted. [...] the total outage period will be several hours. this maintenance will be taking place on the 28th, i.e. today. - river. -BEGIN

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