Hello folks,
at first of June, the toolserver-accounts will expire again. If you need your
account further, please send an eMail to
ts-accounts201001(a)dabpunkt.eu
before this date. The eMail should contain your login-name in the subject and
in the body. Please do NOT send the eMail to this mailing-list; write a NEW
eMail, DON'T use the answer-function of your eMail-client (because it will
send the eMail to this mailinglist). If you send the eMail to the mailinglist,
you will get the "Can't use his/her eMail-client"-price (and some jokes from
the regulars) and NO extending.
This time, I will use our wiki to list account-names for which I got an email
for (see [1]) — please be a little bit patient after you sent me the email.
Maybe I will also send lists per mail too.
Please notice that tools of expired users will be disabled, so if you plan to
not extent your account, make sure that you transfer your tools to another ts-
user before 1. June.
We hope that this is the last time that we use email for account-extending and
that we can use something new next time.
If you have questions, please use the TS-Maillinglist.
Sincerly,
DaB.
[1] https://wiki.toolserver.org/submit/Account-Extending_2010-01
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Hi,
Several Perl and Python modules have been upgraded on the Solaris
servers; a full list of upgrades is available at
<https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MNT-606>.
Additionally, Perl 5.12 has been installed. This can be tested using
/usr/bin/perl5.12; if there are no problems, it will become the default
perl shortly.
Some modules are not currently available for Perl 5.12, such as RRDTool and
Graphviz. These will become available before the default is changed.
- river.
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Hi,
I've rewritten these two utilities to improve security. The new
versions depend on OS-specific features to work, and rather than
duplicate code (which is likely to introduce security issues), I chose
to drop Linux support. These tools are therefore only available on
Solaris login servers (e.g. willow) from now on.
- river.
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Hi,
It is now possible to reset your LDAP password automatically if you have
an LDAP email address set. To do this, run "resetpass".
However, this only works if you have an LDAP email address configured.
All new accounts have this by default, but older accounts may not. To
set your LDAP email address, run "setmail". This will tell you if you
have an email address set or not, and let you set one if you don't.
Once you set your LDAP email address, we recommend replacing your
.forward file like this:
$ echo USERNAME(a)toolserver.org >$HOME/.forward
This will avoid having to update your email address in two places.
There is no requirement that you set an LDAP email address. However, if
you don't, you will not be able to reset your LDAP password if you
forget it. LDAP passwords will be used for more things in the future,
including account renewals.
- river.
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Hello all,
I updated the kernel of nightshade a few minutes ago and now it needs a
reboot. So I will reboot nightshade arround 22:15 UTC. The downtime should be
quite low (few minutes) if no problems occure. You can follow the process at
[1] if you like.
Sincerly,
DaB.
[1] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MNT-593
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Hi,
We have now introduced the concept of a default license for each
account. This is documented on the wiki:
<https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Default_license>.
In the future, selecting a default license will be required at account
creation time (for new account), and at the next account renewal time
(for existing accounts). I suggest people set their license now rather
than leaving it until then.
- river.
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Hi,
As part of some work to improve the reliability of the Toolserver, by
making sure admins are aware of problems, we have set up a new email
address for reporting outages. This replaces the previous "send a text
to river" procedure (the motd will be updated shortly).
The new address is: ts-major-outage (at) TCX (dot) ORG (dot) UK
You should mail this address in case of major problems, for example:
* A login server is broken
* The web server is broken
* A normal database is broken (but not a fast server, unless it breaks
something else)
Don't use this for less urgent problems, such as:
* JIRA or FishEye is broken
* SVN is broken
Admins will be usually be automatically notified of these problems, so
you might want to check in IRC or the status page to see if it's already
known before reporting it.
- river.
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Hi,
I've just found two PHP scripts that contain code like this:
$x = fopen(...);
while (!feof($x)) {
...
}
This is unfortunate, because it creates an infinite loop when fopen
fails: since $x is not a file handle, feof() will never return true, and
the loop will never end.
This is particularly serious with PHP because the infinite loop creates
a log message every time, which fills the system disk, but it's
something to be avoided in any language.
Error handling is not just a nicety. Doing it wrong creates serious
bugs. Do it right.
- river.
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Hi,
status.toolserver.org has been moved to a new host. This should be a
bit more reliable than the previous host (which was on a DSL line). As
usual, please report any problems.
- river.
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Hi,
As announced in previous mails, the new web server (ortelius) is now
serving requests. For now there are two separate sets of log files, one
on each server. We hope to combine these into one log file soon, but
until then, you can force a request to go to a particular server for
testing with a URL like <http://wolfsbane.toolserver.org/~jsmith/>, so
you know where to find the logfiles.
- river.
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