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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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…
>
>
>
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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…
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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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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.
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