Toolserver-l August 2009

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New hardware ordered
by Daniel Kinzler 28 Jun '11

28 Jun '11

Hi all I'm happy to let you know that new hardware has been ordered by Wikimedia Deutschland and will arrive probably in about two weeks. We will get two new systems: * A more powerful web server, to replace hemlock: Sun Fire X4150, 2x Quad-Core Xeon, 8GB RAM, 2x73GB SAS HDD. The current web server only has two cores. * Another database server, to be used for S1 (english wikipedia), so S1 and S3 no longer have to share a server: Sun Fire X4250, 2x Quad-Core Xeon, 32GB RAM, 16x146GB SAS RAID. This should improve performance and give us some head space for growth. Once the new servers arrive, S3 will be re-imported too, so we will have live data again. Any ideas for names? To stay with the nightshade theme, how about Jurubeba and Erubia? Or perhaps we go the "witches' weed" way, with Datura and Mandrake? Henbane is taken, i think. Amanita sounds nice, too :) A third server has been ordered, which will also be installed in Amsterdam, but will not be part of the toolserver cluster. It's a storage server (X4540, 24TB RAID) that will keep a live backup of all media files. Cheers, Daniel

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Re: [Toolserver-l] Betawiki translations
by Luxo 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '10

>> hi all >> >> many of our tools uses messages from betawiki because they are >> translated in many languages. >> But this messages must be synchronized and I think it's not very >> economically if every user/tool do that self. Because of that I >> propose >> to create one database for all users which will be sync periodically. > >A database with one table per user? Sounds good. > >> What do you think? Are any other users interested for such a db? > >I would be interested. > >> Greetings, >> Luxo > >Pietrodn >powerpdn(a)gmail.com I thought not one table per user, but rather one table for all messages. On betawiki are a lot messages e.g. http://translatewiki.net/wiki/MediaWiki:Abusefilter-revert-title/en. So I would make a table something like + ----------+------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ | LANG | MESSAGE | TEXT | + ----------+------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ | en | Abusefilter-revert-title | Revert all changes by filter $1 | + ----------+------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ | de | Abusefilter-revert-title | Alle Änderungen durch Filter $1 rückgängig machen | + ----------+------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ | fr | Abusefilter-revert-title | Révoquer toutes les modifications par le filtre $1 | + ----------+------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ the messages which will be synced should be one a list which every ts-user can edit, so that it's easy for every user to add the messages he requires. --Luxo

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change of regular expression behaviour in rewrite scripts
by River Tarnell 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '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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an idea
by River Tarnell 27 Aug '09

27 Aug '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 so, sometimes we've had problems with the Toolserver that required an admin, but an admin wasn't always around. some of these problems are complicated, but others are simple, and can be fixed by e.g. killing a process, or rebooting a server. to reduce the chance that something like this occurs when no admins are around, i have come up with an idea for a new class of user, which i've termed "Toolserver custodians". custodians would have a limited set of admin privileges, which i imagine might include: * rebooting login/web servers * killing user processes * viewing and killing user queries on MySQL servers because none of these rights allow access to privileged information, we can assign them more freely than root access, and without requiring consent from the Wikimedia Foundation. does this seem like something that would be helpful? and, if we introduced it, would anyone be interested in such privileges? (we would probably require a good knowledge of Unix and at least some experience with system administration.) - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (HP-UX) iEYEARECAAYFAkqWI8IACgkQIXd7fCuc5vKVNgCbBN299o0TyqN6fXqtCHoHRO06 SpYAoKzoJ7n+sgRbJMuPvuCg2O+rk0oH =gIS7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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status
by River Tarnell 26 Aug '09

26 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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Populated the spatial_ref_sys table on cassini
by Peter Körner 24 Aug '09

24 Aug '09

Hi Just want so note that I populated the spatial_ref_sys table on cassini as explained at [1]. This makes it possible to transform between different coordiante-systems using postgis. Peter 1: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-August/040851.html

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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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Voluteering
by Fahad Sadah 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

How does one volunteer to become a toolserver admin, or, if there are too many security/trust problems, any other helpful job? Fahad Sadah

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hyacinth (NFS-server and stable) was rebooted
by DaB. 21 Aug '09

21 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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commonswiki status
by River Tarnell 20 Aug '09

20 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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