Toolserver-l June 2013

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Large core dumps found in home directory
by Derrick Coetzee 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Hi all, I noticed today I had several large core dumps in my home directory, and two buried under my public_html directory. The directories I found them in contained no executables and as far as I know were not working directories for executables (just PHP scripts used by the web server), so I can't imagine how they got there. -rw------- 1 dcoetzee users 191463424 May 5 06:56 core -rw------- 1 dcoetzee users 38797312 Sep 29 2012 core This exceeded my hard quota without my knowledge. Any idea what's up with this? Can I prevent it from reoccurring? Thanks. -- Derrick Coetzee User:Dcoetzee

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Both webservers down
by Maarten Dammers 11 Jul '13

11 Jul '13

Hi, Both the webservers Ortelius and Wolfsbane are not serving http at the moment. Both servers seem to have died exactly at the same time (1 hour ago according to Nagios). Can someone have a look at this? Thank you, Maarten

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Cleanup of user-store
by Marlen Caemmerer 27 Jun '13

27 Jun '13

Hello, user-store is getting filled up soon. Please have a look if you stored anything there that can be deleted. Thanks Marlen/nosy

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Move of user-store NFS
by Marlen Caemmerer 27 Jun '13

27 Jun '13

Hello, I need to move the user-store on Toolserver back to the original machine hemlock. This will cause some short interruptions of the service and may even impact bots and web space tools. Additionally this will mean some short offline time for the OSM Wikipedia Map. This will happen tomorrow (Friday), 19:00 - 21:00 Cheers Marlen/nosy

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Wikidata-Maintenance at s7 and daphne and z-dat-s2-b
by DaB. 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

Hello all, the copies of wikidata at daphne (commons) and z-dat-s2-b (s2) are so outdated that the WMF has no masterlogs for them anymore. To fix this I will dump a copy of wikidata from s7 and reimport it. I plan to do this on FRIDAY, 14:00 UTC. During the dump the replication of wikidata at s7 will stop. During the import at z-dat-s2-b and daphne there will be not wikidata at these hosts. I have no idea how long the hole thing will take, but you can follow the progress at [1]. Sincerely, DaB. [1] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MNT-1327 -- PGP: 0x2d3ee2d42b255885

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Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] WikiDashboard down - anyone knows how to contact people at PARC who developed it?
by Samuel Klein 15 Jun '13

15 Jun '13

Are tools in expired user accounts backed up? If a user disappears for a year and then comes back this time next year, will they be able to find their code and data? Regards, SJ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Piotr Konieczny <piokon(a)post.pl> Date: Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 7:53 AM Subject: [Wiki-research-l] WikiDashboard down - anyone knows how to contact people at PARC who developed it? To: wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org For the last week or so I am getting the following error when trying to use the http://wikidashboard.appspot.com/ tool: "403: User account expired. The page you requested is hosted by the Toolserver user wiki_researcher, whose account has expired. Toolserver user accounts are automatically expired if the user is inactive for over six months. To prevent stale pages remaining accessible, we automatically block requests to expired content. If you think you are receiving this page in error, or you have a question, please contact the owner of this document: wiki_researcher [at] toolserver [dot] org. (Please do not contact Toolserver administrators about this problem, as we cannot fix it—only the Toolserver account owner may renew their account.)" I've tried contacting the owner, and send an email to PARC (it's their project, per the logo seen at the project page ) through their web form, but so far - nothing. Can anyone help to contact them? The tool is useful not only for research (I've used and I am sure so have others here); it is also one of the tools used by Good Article reviewers (and linked from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Good_article_tools) Why we allow toolserver tools used by the community to expire in such a confusing way is beyond me. -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266

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Maintenance of LDAP tomorrow
by Marlen Caemmerer 13 Jun '13

13 Jun '13

Hello, the new LDAP service is ready and will be switched on tomorrow. This will happen at Friday (tomorrow), 19:00 UTC - 21:00 UTC short offline times for services like ssh, mail and web are to be expected. Cheers Marlen/nosy

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JIRA should work again
by DaB. 12 Jun '13

12 Jun '13

Hello all, amette reported yesterday that he found the problem with our JIRA-installation and created a quick-fix to solve it. As far as I see everything seems to works again. Give him some cheering! Please be so nice and do some testing too in JIRA, close bugs that were fixed and create new ones if you find a problem. Sincerely, DaB. -- Benutzerseite: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 0x2d3ee2d42b255885

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SQL S1
by John 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

I am getting a ERROR 2003 (HY000): when trying to connect. John

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Status update on Tool Labs
by Silke Meyer 02 Jun '13

02 Jun '13

Hello to all tool maintainers! It was good to see several of you in person this weekend! Faces ftw! :) Here is a status update with what is now working in Tool Labs: First of all (looking at DaB.s survey and your comments): You _don't_ have to care about virtual instances, puppet or any of this. This is underneath/behind Tool Labs but you can just use the login server without having to know about it. What you get: * login server made to resemble the toolserver * database replicas from s1-s6, s7 is following in June. Access to all data you can access as a registered, unprivileged user. * possibility to create your own user databases * shared project storage, home directories (nfs) * possibility to add maintainers to your project via the web interface on http://tools.wmflabs.org/ * possibility to restore your files to the state they were in 1, 2, 3 hours ago, 1, 2, 3 days ago and on the last 2 Sundays. * infrastructure to run web services * job system: OpenGridengine * two different environments to develop tools in: "Tools" project which is a stable environment, "Bots" project which can be used for experiments with the environment, root access is possible in the latter. * bug tracking in WMF's Bugzilla (product: Wikimedia Labs, components: bots and tools for the two projects) * more stuff that is mentioned in the road map (link below). What we are still on: * documentation (let's crowdsource this!) * make Merlissimo's MerlLinkBot hunt down deprecated weblinks and point them to your tools' new URL. Looking for things you can help with? * Write down you experiences like some already did: Magnus Manske: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/Migrating_from_tools… or Russell Blau: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Russell_Blau/Using_pywikibot_on_La… * Help to improve the user interface of tools.wmflabs.org! Contact Coren/Marc-Andre Pelletier. Links: Tool Labs help: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Help FAQ (ongoing collection of what you ask): http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs/Migration_of_Toolserver_tools Road map: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tool_Labs/Roadmap_en (English) and http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tool_Labs/Roadmap_de (German) What's next? Please come and try out the new database replication! If your tool is up and running in Tool Labs, _please consider documenting_ what you missed in the docs. By doing so you will help others a lot! Don't hesitate to ask! The best places to ask questions: * IRC (#wikimedia-labs), where Coren and petan (as Tool Labs admins) and many other experienced people hang around * the list labs-l (https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l) Do your tools need more adaptations than you think you can do? Wouldn't mind a helping hand? Ask me and I'll try to find you a helper! Best, Silke -- Silke Meyer Internes IT-Management und Projektmanagement Toolserver Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 260 http://wikimedia.de 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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