Box-Admins November 2006

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Re: wiki.squeak.org
by Ken Causey 23 May '07

23 May '07

That's a very good idea but not something I can implement since it must be done on minnow once the Swiki is shut down. Jochen, Mark: What Giovanni is getting at here is whether it is possible for minnow to report a 301 (Permanently Moved) reply pointing to http://wiki.squeak.org/ at least for http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/ once the content has been moved? By the way, is the intention to move just the /squeak/ section of the Swiki or the entire content? Ken Causey On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 10:18 +0100, Giovanni Giorgi wrote: > By the way you can give an hint to google. > When accessing to > http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/ > you can reply with a special http reply"Moved" > to redirect it to > http://wiki.squeak.org/ > The search engine will update itself in a snap. > Bye bye > > On 10/30/06, Ken Causey <ken(a)kencausey.com> wrote: > > I would like to suggest that the community get used to using > > http://wiki.squeak.org/ in preference to our usual > > http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/ . > > > > As has been correctly pointed out there is a long history in the search > > engines of minnow URLs and while it would be nice for those to continue > > to work in the long run, I don't think it is realistic that GA. Tech is > > going to want their hostname used on a server which they do not host or > > maintain. > > > > I think we simply need to face the reality that at some point we are > > going to lose that URL. To that end I suggest that we immediately begin > > using http://wiki.squeak.org/ in every case. > > > > I have it setup so that URLs like http://wiki.squeak.org/5888 are > > correctly redirected for now and once the Swiki is moved hopefully the > > same URLs will work later. > > > > Hopefully if we start using these URLs sooner than later the search > > engines will begin picking them up even before the use is necessary. > > Realistically we are going to have trouble with search engines for a > > long time to come, but it can only help to get started now. > > > > Ken > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

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Dead mailing list subscriber processing policy
by Ken Causey 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

For some time now the standard backlog of qmail requests on the server has been increasing (it seems to average 2500-3000 or so currently) and I suspect that at least some portion of this is related to mailing list subscribers whose addresses no longer work. For some time now most mailing list notices have been going to this mailing list (I've never yet figured out why) and I've simply been deleting them from the moderation queue rather than have everyone flooded by them. But really the ones that are due to dead subscribers should be handled at some point. I'm really not sure who or how this has been processed in the past and I'm wondering if anyone knows or has an opinion on a policy for this. For example do I drop someone on the first bounce that seems to indicate something that won't be quickly fixed? Do I wait for response X or period of time Y? What about weeks and weeks of transient problems like full mailbox? I think you get the idea. Of course I also cannot handle these myself (for the most part) since I handed off overall mailing list admin duties to Marcus. So somehow he and I will need to work out an interface for this. Ken

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Re: Swik -> box2?
by Cees De Groot 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Hi Jochen, You should be able to login now as 'wiki' on 'box2.squeakfoundation.org' Regards, Cees On 1/19/06, Jochen F. Rick <nadja(a)cc.gatech.edu> wrote: > OK. I'm attaching my SSH key. > > Peace and Luck! > > Jeff > > -- > Jochen "Jeff" Rick, PhD Candidate, Georgia Tech College of Computing > jochen.rick(a)cc.gatech.edu, http://www.je77.com/, work: 404-385-1105 > > >

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list quiet, just testing
by Ken Causey 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

Sorry, ignore this, just a quick test to make sure mailman is letting new message through. Ken

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Box2 seems to be down
by Ken Causey 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

Cees, Can you check with Hetzner? Box2 does not seem to be responding. I can ping it but neither ssh nor web access is currently working, and the lists seem to be quiet. Thanks, Ken

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Today's Server Outage
by Ken Causey 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

I would like to apologize for the server outage which has resulted in quiet lists and pretty much zero response for website requests for the services hosted on the community server. A lack of communication resulted in a stack of backed up backup processes which ate up the usage. I was finally able to clean up and things should be more or less back to normal. For now the daily backup schedule has been suspended until we work out a replacement setup. Ken

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Re: Fwd: [Webteam] Request for an Exupery website redirect
by Ken Causey 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

I discussed this with Bryce and he agreed that this was the most appropriate solution for the time being. So http://exupery.squeak.org/ has been setup as a redirect to http://wiki.squeak.org/Exupery Ken On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 13:10 -0500, Jason Rogers wrote: > Ken, > > What do you think of this? > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Alex Perez <aperez(a)alexperez.com> > Date: Nov 14, 2006 11:22 PM > Subject: [Webteam] Request for an Exupery website redirect > To: webteam(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org > > > Hi there, > > I'm new around these parts, but have helped administer the gnustep.org > website in the past, and am a systems administrator by trade. I was > wondering if you guys would be willing to set up a simple one-line > Apache HTTP redirect for http://exupery.squeak.org which would point to > http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/Exupery ? > > The official Exupery URL is quite non-memorable. I'm not sure what > Squeak's policy is about associating with quasi/non-official Squeak > projects, but it should be easy to do from a technical perspective. > > Regards, > Alex Perez > _______________________________________________ > Webteam mailing list > Webteam(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/webteam > >

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Re: Made 3.8.1 images
by Ken Causey 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 17:14 +0200, Michael Rueger wrote: > ...how to upload? Should we create a 3.8.1 folder? > > Michael > I've changed the ownership of all 3.8 and 3.9* ftp directories to the 'update' account so now you can simply modify them using the same account you use to add updates. Be sure to use the right patch of course. In this case '/var/www/files/3.8/'. Ken

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Box-Admins Team Report for October, 2006
by Ken Causey 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

The box-admins team is reponsible for seeing that the community shared server is maintained and setting up any new features to be hosted on that server. For October 2006: The server was down for some period of time due to a power outage at the hosting provider early in the month. Clearly this was out of our control but hopefully not likely to be replicated in the near future. One thing this outage did point out was that we had not gotten around to ensuring that some of the essential processes would automatically restart when the system restarted so there was quick round of setting up processes under daemontools ( http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html ). A couple of new hostnames were setup that currently redirect to other existing sites but may in time become the home for these services: http://wiki.squeak.org/ -> http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/ http://news.squeak.org/ -> http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/ I would like to suggest that everyone get in the habit of using these wherever they would have previously used the old addresses so we can get in the habit and not be surprised when the old address stop working. Brad Fuller is working on a new website for SqueakFoundation based on Pier and hopefully there will be some news about that soon. I want to thank the community for the monetary support needed to fund these boxes and remind them that the bills continue to appear and that you can currently contribute to the hosting bills by going to http://discuss.squeakfoundation.org/ and clicking on the 'donate' button at the top right. Note that a donation here may be used for other Squeak Foundation services including but not limited to development, development infrastructure, and promotion of Squeak. The services being hosted have continued to grow and include (but are not limited to): http://www.squeak.org/ SqueakMap - http://map.squeak.org/ http://ftp.squeak.org/ http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/ http://discuss.squeakfoundation.org/ http://source.squeakfoundation.org/ http://map.squeak.org/ https://svn.squeak.org/ http://update.squeakfoundation.org/ and DNS services for squeak.org and squeakfoundation.org domain names. Ken

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