"Brion Vibber" brion@wikimedia.org wrote in message news:49949007.4090305@wikimedia.org...
On 2/12/09 2:02 AM, Huib Laurens wrote:
Hello,
Can somebody give a status update about when the special pages will be updated again? (like broken redirects or double redirects) The stopt updating for almost a week now.
And what is the reason that the are not working?
Last week some of the background batch jobs were reorganized to run under a less privileged user account, a good security practice.
Unfortunately the log files the batch jobs logged to didn't have their ownership updated, so the batch jobs were unable to actually run, due to being unable to open their output files. :P
I've fixed the file ownership; they should start updating in the next day or two per regular schedule.
Brion, you might want to double-check that. The "regular schedule" would have had the special pages on enwiki updated today (13 Feb), early morning US time, but so far it has not happened.