Toolserver-announce August 2009

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status
by River Tarnell 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi, the Toolserver is currently offline due to an issue with the NFS server. we are working on the issue and have a ticket open with Sun, but at this point there is no ETA. if it looks like the issue will take some time to resolve, we will restore the last /home backup onto another server and use that. however, that means losing about 12 hours worth of changes, so we will try to avoid it if possible. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (HP-UX) iEYEARECAAYFAkqSsmMACgkQIXd7fCuc5vKobACfcRyaQMlECY0tIXfTvXTH7IeH NPQAn2UcW83zd3hTnk8wRU08cvWgD9Ni =8yRk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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s1 hardware maintenance
by River Tarnell 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi, i have shut down MySQL on s1 (rosemary) for hardware maintenance later today. this will also affect stable once the maintenance starts. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (HP-UX) iEYEARECAAYFAkqO6UIACgkQIXd7fCuc5vK9XwCdEvzrIQE/oxAt/ankGGUlJImC TFwAn1zbuwQTYeqx7F23UeusEcUH0BFG =e4IP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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hyacinth (NFS-server and stable) was rebooted
by DaB. 20 Aug '09

20 Aug '09

Hello all, hyacinth (NFS-server and stable) was rebooted because of problems with the network. The missing nfs forced nearly tools to stop/halt. The outtage was nearly 1 hour. Sincerly, DaB. -- wp-blog.de

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change of regular expression behaviour in rewrite scripts
by River Tarnell 19 Aug '09

19 Aug '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi, after the web server change on Wednesday, we noticed the following behaviour of regexp matching in rewrite scripts: when using a construct like "(a|b|)", the regexp will *not* match the empty string. as a workaround, you can write "(a|b)?". if you do not use this construct in your rewrite.script, this does not affect you. we have raised this issue with Zeus and are waiting for a resolution. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (HP-UX) iEYEARECAAYFAkqMZtEACgkQIXd7fCuc5vJSBwCfUqPM5UnwGu2bkaE7QkMejUzq ljQAnR2Z9uPjlvi54LJd6D5Fp9qsim6J =ug1G -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[important] conversion of wolfsbane (web server) to Solaris
by River Tarnell 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi, following the implementation of the Solaris login server (willow), we are planning to move the web server, wolfsbane, to this platform. compared to the previous change on the web server (from Apache to ZWS), we don't expect this to require as much effort from users. for example, there is no need to change your htaccess or rewrite rules, because we will be using the same web server software. for most tools (e.g. simple CGI or PHP scripts), there will be no need to change anything. in order of likelihood, the most common problems will be: * missing modules (for PHP/Perl/Python) * missing libraries (for C/C++) * different versions (e.g. PHP 5.3 vs 5.2, Python 2.6 vs 2.5) * OS differences if you find missing modules or libraries, please file a request on JIRA to have these installed. for version differences, normally no changes will be required; if any are required, they will be documented in the release notes for the language in question, and should be easy to do. in extreme cases (where converting to the new version would be very difficult), we may be able to install old versions of the affected software. there are unlikely to be many people affected by OS differences; this would only happen if your tool calls external programs, which is uncommon. if you encounter a problem of this sort and can't solve it yourself, you can ask for help on IRC or the mailing list. there are some notes about Linux->Solaris migration on the TS wiki at <https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Using_Solaris>. there will be a one month test / migration period, during which you can test the web server on willow. to do this, replace "toolserver.org" in your tool's URL with "willow.toolserver.org", for example: http://willow.toolserver.org/~jsmith/mytool.php this will last until Wednesday, 19 August, at which point wolfsbane will be converted. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (HP-UX) iEYEARECAAYFAkpolUwACgkQIXd7fCuc5vL2EgCgmG45stK/gAuTQS48mSAumkPL svkAnRV66vax/6j+Mrq5E/1/YsF4ESoq =lwH6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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commonswiki status
by River Tarnell 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi, due to some confusion during Wikimedia's move of commons to a new cluster, the database was dropped on the Toolserver and is not available. we will do a reimport at some point to bring it back. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (HP-UX) iEYEARECAAYFAkqIgcYACgkQIXd7fCuc5vJN8wCfUPsDKqr+yDOxCjDskaJPsYFL eacAoKbKdoELJ/95jsXUtMpTNT7QBnZ/ =ZOlD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RfC: globalsitenotice
by DaB. 16 Aug '09

16 Aug '09

Hello all, at the moment it is difficult to inform our toolusers (people that use our tools) about planed maintainces, downtimes and other important things. So I had the idea today that a kind of global sitenotice (like the one in the wikimedia-projects) would be nice and a easy solution for that. The easiest way to implement it is IMHO a simple textfile, that toolauthors may/can/should/whatever insert in their tools. I created such a file, it can be found at /var/www/sitenotice on wolfsbane and via http://toolserver.org/sitenotice. For normal the file would be empty or contains only a empty div-container. If the roots know about a planed downtime or an important change, they would insert a short text in the file and our toolusers would be informed. The setup is differend to status.toolserver.org, because status lists only the current status, not a futuraly status. Please comment at the toolserver-mailinglist and tell me/us if you would implement the sitenotice in your tools. Sincerly, DaB. -- wp-blog.de

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Unplaned rebooting of linux-servers
by DaB. 15 Aug '09

15 Aug '09

Hello all, to make sure that CVE-2009-2692 is fixed after the kernel-update, I rebooted all linux-servers (that's nightshade, wolfsbane and cassini) tonight. The downtime was fewer then 5 minutes. Sincerly, DaB. -- wp-blog.de

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queued mail from willow
by River Tarnell 09 Aug '09

09 Aug '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi, people running cron jobs or otherwise receiving system mail on willow will not have received that mail in the last few days, as it was being queued instead of sent. this has now been fixed, so you may see some old mail arriving. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (HP-UX) iEYEARECAAYFAkp+gW8ACgkQIXd7fCuc5vKdRwCgqPpJ2VPsihkQfqoDuvuEYnT2 NoEAn23buSxsRd1cqeXoswqGsmHrhJV9 =etIX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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s1 status
by River Tarnell 08 Aug '09

08 Aug '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi, the s1 server (rosemary) has a faulty motherboard which is causing system crashes. we will replace the part next week; until then, access to s1 will be intermittently offline. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (HP-UX) iEYEARECAAYFAkp+CUkACgkQIXd7fCuc5vJPoACbB3A2wdatbZvrdwSUQ1bcm3wH eT4AnA0mKf1cghr/a6FPRoIvGmOIqYmb =oi+H -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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