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?
Best regards, Huib
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
"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.
Brion Vibber wrote:
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
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I've checked enwiki and hewiki, and the special pages are still not updated.
"Rotem Liss" rotemliss@gmail.com wrote in message news:499A7134.5090501@gmail.com...
Brion Vibber wrote:
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
I've checked enwiki and hewiki, and the special pages are still not updated.
Reported: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17534
On 2/17/09 8:33 AM, Russell Blau wrote:
"Rotem Liss"rotemliss@gmail.com wrote in message news:499A7134.5090501@gmail.com...
Brion Vibber wrote:
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
I've checked enwiki and hewiki, and the special pages are still not updated.
Reported: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17534
Fixed the cron job for real this time... there were misleading log file entries which indicated the problem was different. :P
Actual bug was obsolete hardcoded paths in the batch scripts -- attempting to run PHP from /usr/local/bin and grabbing the cluster id from /etc/cluster which we apparently no longer use on new machines?
I've started a manual run of the small-wikis updates. Large wikis will continue on their regular schedule.
-- brion
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