Toolserver-l January 2013

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Cron on willow
by Carl (CBM) 11 Jan '13

11 Jan '13

Has anyone else noticed this? I am having problems with cron on willow, which does not seem to be executing my crontab. I tried to test it by adding a line to my crontab that should execute every minute: * * * * * /home/cbm/touch.sh That script runs correctly from the command line, but cron does not seem to execute it. Some of my other other cronjobs appear not to have run in a couple days, even though they were working fine for months before. - Carl

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Crons overflow/server overload on Willow (other)
by Wolfgang ten Weges 11 Jan '13

11 Jan '13

Hello, I just noticed that my "welcome" crons have stopped running. Looking at "top", it seems that the server's CPU is fully used, all the time. Includes several instances of : -user rez : ~/pywikipedia/zzfawikipatroler.py, ~/pywikipedia/zzavanegary.py, ~/pywikipedia/zznavbox.py -user javadyou : ~/pywikipedia/radeh7.py I'm afraid that's one or more of those scripts have a misformed cron/parameters that keeps opening new ones while the old aren't terminated, hogging the CRON for themselves. Wolfgang ten Weges / darkoneko

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Downtime of s7 starting tomorrow
by DaB. 11 Jan '13

11 Jan '13

Hello all, good news: We got a s4 and a s7-dump from the WMF, I transfer them to the toolserver at the moment. Because the integration of Wikidata in hu/hewiki will start soon AFAIK, I will begin with s7. Because the dumps are in the new binary-format the actual "import" will be quite fast, the downtime of s7 should not be too long (at few hours at maximum, but I can't promise anything). So I hereby declare a read-only-time and a downtime of s7 Tomorrow, starting 16:00 UTC. The handling of s4 will take more time, because I have to convert the dump in the traditional format first. I will notice you when downtimes are needed. Sincerely, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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Amsterdam Hackathon 2013
by Maarten Dammers 09 Jan '13

09 Jan '13

Hi everyone, Unlike previous years the big European Hackathon won't be in Berlin, but in Amsterdam. We're aiming to do the hackathon in May 2013 with a preference for the weekend of Saturday the 25th. To make sure this is a good weekend I've set up a straw poll at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013#Straw_Poll . Please fill it out so we can finalize the date! Thank you, Maarten Wikimedia Nederland Ps. Please forward to any relevant lists I might have missed.

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Can't explain queries?
by Aaron Halfaker 04 Jan '13

04 Jan '13

Hello, I've been working on a new script that will access the MySQL database. In testing this script, I was worried about the complexity of some of my queries, so I naturally went to the MySQL client and ran them with "explain". It appears that I do not have permission to do so. Is this intended? Is something wrong? *EXPLAIN/SHOW can not be issued; lacking privileges for underlying table* See session snippet below: grphack@willow:~$ mysql -h enwiki-p.userdb.toolserver.org enwiki_p Server version: 5.1.66 Source distribution Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. mysql> explain select * from revision; ERROR 1345 (HY000): EXPLAIN/SHOW can not be issued; lacking privileges for underlying table Thanks! -Aaron

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JIRA Account Creation Failing
by Samuel Damashek 01 Jan '13

01 Jan '13

Hello Everybody! Happy New Years to everybody. I'm trying to create a JIRA account to then request a toolserver account to run a bot (VoxelBot from enwiki) on the server. However, when I try to make a JIRA account, I get this error: A system error occurred while creating your user account. For further assistance, please contact your JIRA administrators<https://jira.toolserver.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa> . Furthermore, the contact administrators link is also broken. It says that tool isn't set up yet. Is there something I'm doing wrong? -- Samuel Damashek

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