Toolserver-l June 2010

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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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I make a vector skins for toolserver
by June Hyeon Bae 25 Jun '11

25 Jun '11

I make a vector skins for toolserver. $title = "Test Title"; require_once("skins/vector.header.php"); // codes... require_once("skins/vector.footer.php"); ex) (http://toolserver.org/~devunt/index.php) [code] <? $title="Main Page"; require_once("skins/vector.header.php"); ?> <table class='wikitable'> <tr><th>For</th><th>Tool Name/Link</th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan=2>Korean Wikipedia</td> <td><a href="kovr.php">Korean WP Admin poll checker</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="userid.php">Userid checker</a></td> </tr> </table> <? require_once("skins/vector.footer.php") ?> [/code] And I set the permission /home/devunt/public_html/skins/ to 0755. thank you.

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Power outage
by River Tarnell 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, At about 22:30 UTC last night (Tuesday) one of our power circuits went down for about 15 minutes. This affected one node of the HA cluster which was hosting the following services: Sun Grid Engine master server tsbot IRC bot DNS recursor MySQL server for sql-toolserver MySQL replication support infrastructure LDAP server All services failed over to the other node and were online again within 22 seconds. However, MySQL did not respond well to losing its replication connection and had to be restarted manually, causing about 30 minutes replication lag. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkwqh5YACgkQIXd7fCuc5vKQTwCgm1RTRwqQcaSpg7M4IL7brHGi ZF0An0EuetoI6PyQ9/1KYwBIAoym+Ta6 =omgy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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ts-admins language
by River Tarnell 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, Just a reminder: although the Toolserver is hosted by Wikimedia Deutschland, not all our admins (i.e., me) are fluent in German. You will therefore get a faster response to your request when you write in English. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkwpn/oACgkQIXd7fCuc5vIBiQCgs0aZWvUy6mcJm4E2yCyy7ZRT VdYAn3dVPD3Nd4BuSlpZPFXbAxt0CueF =mhIj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Update of kernel and reboot on/of nightshade tomorrow evening.
by DaB. 27 Jun '10

27 Jun '10

Hello all, I need to reboot nightshade, because of a kernel-update. The reboot will take place tomorrow (Monday) at 20 o'clock UTC. The downtime will be between 5 and 15 minutes (5 minutes if nothing goes wrong). You can track the issue at [[MNT-675]] and if you are login on nightshade, you will get several notifies before the reboot too. Sincerly, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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CAPTCHA can be required for logins from toolserver hosts
by Carl (CBM) 24 Jun '10

24 Jun '10

At the moment, logins to enwiki from nightshade.toolserver.org are throwing up a CAPTCHA. This is easy to check by loading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin in w3m or another browser from that host. Logins from willow.toolserver.org do not require a CAPTCHA at the moment. The CAPTCHA requirement makes it impossible for bots to log in via the API. The fundamental problem is that bots are run automatically, of course. But the API also does not report the CAPTCHA requirement at all, so bot developers are given a "WrongPass" error that they have to investigate to find that a CAPTCHA is the problem. This CAPTCHA situation has happened before, most likely due to some erroneous bot on toolserver triggering it. But individual bot operators cannot fix it, and so to them it has the same effect as a toolserver outage. Moreover, whatever bot operator caused it probably has no way to know it was them. It seems like this may take collaboration between toolserver and wikimedia to fix, but probably the fix will involve at least some change on the wikimedia side. So I have filed a bug at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23982 to coordinate discussion there. - Carl

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account question
by Laszlo Kozma 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

Dear Toolserver mailing list readers, Please someone let me know how to request the reactivation of the toolserver account if it is possible. I used to have the account "lkozma" that ran some supporting scripts for wikipediavision which is streamed live on the wikimedia.de site. As I was traveling I did not notice any mails about account expiration and the renewal process, so I don't know how to proceed now. I'm very sorry to spam the mailing list with this request, I have entered a JIRA issue and wrote to several toolserver people, but haven't received any response. Thank you for the help, best, Laszlo On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Thomas Ineichen <toolserver.mailinglist(a)t-i.ch> wrote: > Hi, > > As this is my first posting on this list, I'd like to introduce > myself: > > My name is Thomas, I'm 28 and I live in Zurich, Switzerland. I've come > to Toolserver via OpenStreetMap, as my aim is to create a map for > cyclists. In the beginning I want to focus on the different access- > rights (and thus also produce access-maps for other means of transport > eg. cars, motorcycles, lorries). Later on, I'll maybe add some POIs > and routes. > > Sneak-Preview: http://access.t-i.ch/ > > > Even tough I've studied Business Informatics, I'm relatively new to > Unix; I run a Mapnik-server but my main OS is Windows 7. So I hope > you're not bored when I ask my may-be-newbie-questions. :) > > > Like this one: > > In the welcome-mail it says, I should set my LDAP password[1]. But > when I try to run 'setpass' on willow, it (he?) responds with: > `setpass: priv set: Not owner´ > > So, what to do? > > (Maybe there is a connection to the broken mkuser[2]?) > > Regards, > Thomas > > [1] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/LDAP > [2] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/ACCAPP-190?focusedCommentId=15216&page=c… > > > > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l > Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette >

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[Bots] [enwp] Softblocking of toolserver-IPs in near future
by DaB. 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

Hello all, I was notified in IRC today, that the english wikipedia (enwp for short) is going to change their toolserver-ip-blocking-policy. Some bots were editing without login (I guess most time accidentally) in the past and enwp-admins have had trouble with that; anonymous bot-editing is and were against our toolserver-rules too. So they plan to softblock (that means: editing without login is not possible) our IPs in 2 weeks from now. So if you run a bot, please make sure that you login to edit and test your bot that it works with a softblocked ip. You may also test other tools, that edit the english wikipedia. Please notice also, that it is not allowed to run a bot on the web-servers. The discussion of the policy-changing can be found at [1]. Sincerly, DaB. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Bot_policy#Proposal_to_softbloc… -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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OSM on Toolserver
by Marcus Buck 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

Hello, There was a project for integration of OpenStreetMap material in Wikimedia projects at <http://cassini.toolserver.org/tile-browse/>. Cassini seems to be down now. Is the OSM project abandoned or has it moved to another place? Thanks Marcus Buck User:Slomox

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FreeBSD test server
by River Tarnell 16 Jun '10

16 Jun '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, We are (again) evaluating FreeBSD as a login server environment. There is now a test server, zedler.toolserver.org, which you could test your tools on if you like. (If you need configuration changes or software installed, ask me on IRC; don't use JIRA for this, since it's not official.) At this time there are no plans to change the OS(es) on the login servers, we're only evaluating options. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (HP-UX) iEYEARECAAYFAkwX7KwACgkQIXd7fCuc5vKm+QCgmrkRLT9zB1flee0It7wssLB2 +isAnjCweK6ndPtVgdFqB1ojybtdogU8 =tDiu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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