Toolserver-l June 2012

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What is slow
by Marlen Caemmerer 27 Jun '12

27 Jun '12

Hello, I sometimes get complaints that toolserver was slow. This regards web applications and it is not always slow but sometimes. I cannot always really correlate this to certain servers being slow at the time in question. That is the reason I really would like to have a reference measurement application that graphs me how long it took. So the idea would be to have an application that is called via web server, makes a database query on every host, records, how long it took and measures how long the application took to complete. The measurements could be written out to rrd files so it is easy to graph afterwards. Do you think it would be sufficiant to measure the time of a simple select and an insert or would a more complex query be sensible? Do you already a tool that does this? What do you think about this? Cheers nosy

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SSH client for iPad
by Ja Ga 27 Jun '12

27 Jun '12

Hey does anyone know of an iPad app that successfully SSH's to Toolserver? The freebies aren't working for me and I'd like to know it will work before I plunk down cash for one. - Jason

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Dude, where is my logfile?
by DaB. 26 Jun '12

26 Jun '12

Hello, today we have run a little bit short of disc-space on the /home-partition. I searched for files with more than 500MB, hoping to find some old log-files that I could delete before I tell you to clean-up. What I found was upsetting: The biggest log-file I found was 74GB(!) big and several others were also dozen of GB big. I deleted them all (a list can be found at [1]). Guys, what is so hard to check from time to time a big a logfile is and truncate it? Do I really have to speed-up the re-installation of the quota- system so that you all have 256MB per default and angry mails are send if you use more? So please: Use the weekend to log into your toolserver-account, check how much disc-space your use (use "du -hs your(sub)directoryhere" for that) and look if you can do some clean-up. If everything is ok and you still use 5GB of disc- space: no problem, if you need it, take it. I will contact the top10-disc-users on Monday by email. Sincerely, DaB. * [1] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MNT-1252 -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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Reboot of willow today
by DaB. 25 Jun '12

25 Jun '12

Hello all, willow was rebooted around 15:30 UTC because Mark was in the datacenter today and he added some memory to our servers. We couldn't announce the reboot, because we didn't know that Mark would be in the datacenter today. I'm sorry if any data was lost, but on the plus-side the memory-extension should make the usage of willow more easy for all of you. Another topic: A default quota for each user without a quota was set tonight. For some users the default will be too small: If you need more disc-space, open a jira-bug or try to reach a root in the IRC and we will set a bigger quota for you. Sincerely, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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Running weblinkchecker.py on Toolserver
by Yishen Miao 23 Jun '12

23 Jun '12

Hello everyone, I set my bot (Mys_bot) to run weblinkchecker.py on toolserver. It needs to check all pages on zh_wikipedia for the first time through api. I made it run for a hour earlier. However, one hour is not enough. Currently I submit a 3 hour job to the queue per day manually. Is it okay to let it run until it completes the dat file and schedule repeat checks on weekly basis? Also, how long should I set per run for weblinkchecker.py? Regards, Yishen Miao (mys_721tx)

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Upcoming hackathon for experts AND newbies: Washington, DC, USA July 10-11
by Sumana Harihareswara 22 Jun '12

22 Jun '12

This is a reminder that you're invited to the pre-Wikimania hackathon, 10-11 July in Washington, DC, USA: https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon In order to come, you have to register for the Wikimania conference: https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration (Unfortunately, the period for requesting scholarships is now over.) At the hackathon, we'll have trainings and projects for novices, and we welcome creators of all Wikimedia technologies -- MediaWiki, gadgets, bots, mobile apps, you name it -- to hack on stuff together and teach each other. Hope to see you! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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Toolserver Workshop at Wikipedia Academy 2012 in Berlin
by Angelika Adam 20 Jun '12

20 Jun '12

Hi all! On Friday 29 June 2012 the Wikipedia Academy 2012 kicks off with a workshop programme on the campus of Freie Universität Berlin. Amongst others, Marlen Caemmerer and Christian Thiele will hold a "Toolserver" workshop from 9:00 to 12:00 AM: http://wikipedia-academy.de/2012/wiki/Schedule/Workshops#WORKSHOP:_Toolserv… Marlen Caemmerer works as a Toolserver System Administrator for Wikimedia Germany. Christian Thiele is a Wikipedia volunteer since 2004 and wrote several tools running on the Toolserver. You can still sign-up for participation (workshop fee: 10 Euro). If interested, please use the online registration form to sign up: http://wikipedia-academy.de/2012/wiki/Registration. It's possible to select "Friday 29 June - only Workshop" if you want to register for a workshop but not for the entire conference. It would be great if you could spread the word. Feel free to forward this e-mail to people who could be interested! Thank you, Angelika Adam Wikipedia Academy 2012 Organisational Committee www.wikipedia-academy.de -- Angelika Adam Projektmanagerin Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstraße 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 260 http://www.wikimedia.de/ Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch freien Zugang zu der Gesamtheit des Wissens der Menschheit hat. Helfen Sie uns dabei! Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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Fwd: Write attempts to wiki API from TS timeout
by Dr. Trigon 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Toolserver-l] Write attempts to wiki API from TS timeout Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:42:40 +0200 From: Dr. Trigon <dr.trigon(a)surfeu.ch> To: marlen.caemmerer(a)wikimedia.de > I spoke to a network admin since the WMF went for IPv6 day on the > 5th and I wanted to make sure we are not just having > routing/networking issues before we troubleshoot any further. Thanks a lot for your effort! > Can you please make a test how it works if you use the API > IPv4-only? That would be great, please let me know how this goes. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37536 Did you read comment #1 and #2? If you need more info than Merlijn gathered let us know... Greetings -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk/ffYYACgkQAXWvBxzBrDCu8QCgy7aMiF2lgv8az6mBqQdDkL6E TPYAn0AOwAe1z8YtZQULEWkXpNlPa+w9 =a29W -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Toolserver-l] Mail with "Unable to read script file because
by Hersfold Wikipedia 16 Jun '12

16 Jun '12

of error: no input read from stdin" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I've been getting these for months. ---- User:Hersfold hersfoldwiki(a)gmail.com Sent from my Windows Phone From: Andre Karwath Sent: 6/16/2012 5:42 To: toolserver-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Toolserver-l] Mail with "Unable to read script file because of error: no input read from stdin" Hello, I often get e-mails with the following content since a few weeks: --------------------- Subject: Cron <aka@hawthorn> cronsub -s $cronname Body: Unable to read script file because of error: no input read from stdin --------------------- Is there anything I can do to prevent these e-mails? Regards, Andr=C3=A9 (aka) _______________________________________________ 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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Mail with "Unable to read script file because of error: no input read from stdin"
by Andre Karwath 16 Jun '12

16 Jun '12

Hello, I often get e-mails with the following content since a few weeks: --------------------- Subject: Cron <aka@hawthorn> cronsub -s $cronname Body: Unable to read script file because of error: no input read from stdin --------------------- Is there anything I can do to prevent these e-mails? Regards, André (aka)

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