[Box-Admins] Re: Squeak Gandi server

[Ken Causey]

As usual immediately after hitting send I noticed a relevant link.  It
appears that the size of the virtual disk may be changed and perhaps
only changed through the gandi.net interface to which we do not have
access currently (to which I understand Brad is trying to find a
solution.)

Brad: Is it possible you or someone else with access can increase the
disk size for our system?  60GB will probably satisfy the requirements
for Jenkins (assuming our previous calculations are accurate); but
really we can use all we can get if the goal is to move many of our
existing services to this system.  We could immediately make use of
250GB and if we are planning for the future more like 500GB-1TB is more
realistic.

That said, it is still an open question as to what will be moved to this
server and what we will have to find resources for elsewhere.  Whatever
you can provide we will happily use.

Thanks,

Ken

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: [Box-Admins] Re: Squeak Gandi server
> From: "Ken Causey" <ken at kencausey.com>
> Date: Mon, October 01, 2012 1:47 pm
> To: "Squeak Hosting Support" <box-admins at lists.squeakfoundation.org>,
> "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn at sfconservancy.org>
> Cc: squeak at sfconservancy.org, board at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> 
> 
> I'm a little bit confused about the available disk space on this system:
> 
> root at box3-squeak:~# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/xvda1            3.0G  607M  2.3G  22% /
> tmpfs                 504M     0  504M   0% /lib/init/rw
> udev                   10M   80K   10M   1% /dev
> tmpfs                 504M  4.0K  504M   1% /dev/shm
> tmpfs                  24K   12K   12K  50% /var/gandi
> 
> It appears to be only 3GB and I think Chris requested something like
> 60GB or greater.  Is this perhaps a logical volume that I can expand? 
> I'm still looking but I'm having trouble finding any gandi.net help
> documentation.
> 
> Ken
> 
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: RE: [Box-Admins] Re: Squeak Gandi server
> > From: "Ken Causey" <ken at kencausey.com>
> > Date: Mon, October 01, 2012 1:38 pm
> > To: "Squeak Hosting Support" <box-admins at lists.squeakfoundation.org>,
> > "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn at sfconservancy.org>
> > Cc: board at lists.squeakfoundation.org, squeak at sfconservancy.org
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks, I am able to login with my key to both the admin and root
> > accounts.
> > 
> > Ken
> > 
> > P.S. box3-squeak is fine, the primary hostname is really not relevant to
> > us as more than a reference for the handful of us who directly access
> > the box.  All other access is via CNAMEs anyway and so the actual
> > hostname is rarely noticed by anyone.
> > 
> > 
> > > -------- Original Message --------
> > > Subject: [Box-Admins] Re: Squeak Gandi server
> > > From: Chris Cunnington <smalltalktelevision at gmail.com>
> > > Date: Mon, October 01, 2012 11:28 am
> > > To: "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn at sfconservancy.org>
> > > Cc: Squeak Hosting Support <box-admins at lists.squeakfoundation.org>,
> > > squeak at sfconservancy.org
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On 12-10-01 11:43 AM, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
> > > > Chris,
> > > >
> > > > I've created the server for you.  Here's it's IPv4 address.
> > > >
> > > >   IP address: 173.246.101.237
> > > >
> > > > Gandi oddly always asks for a username to be the administrator, and
> > > > won't take "root" as the name of account.  I made it "admin" which is
> > > > their default, so I presume Ken will need to ssh in with:
> > > >     ssh 173.246.101.237 -l admin
> > > > but should also try:
> > > >    ssh 173.246.101.237 -l root
> > > >
> > > > (just in case)
> > > >
> > > > Note that I saw Ken's ssh key had more /'s in it than I would have
> > > > expect, so I was a bit worried it had come from cut-and-paste.  Attached
> > > > is the ssh key I used, so you can verify I used the right one if you
> > > > have trouble logging in.
> > > >
> > > > Note that I called it "box3-squeak", mainly so that when it shows up in
> > > > the main Gandi menu, I can see clearly that it's squeak.  I presume you
> > > > can change the host name.
> > > >
> > > > Meanwhile, I've gotten no response from my contacts in Gandi about the
> > > > user management problem.  If you need reboots or console, for the
> > > > moment, you'll have to email me.  I'll keep in touch with Gandi (and
> > > > other VPS hosters) to find out if there's a way to solve this problem
> > > > when you have a consolidated account for billing but lots of discrete
> > > > groups of people managing the VPS's.  It seems no one has thought about
> > > > that problem yet, oddly!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Thanks Bradley!
> > > 
> > > I'll be adding news of the SFC and Gandi's assistance in today's Squeak 
> > > Oversight Board minutes. And then The Weekly Squeak blog on Sunday.
> > > 
> > > It's great to be moving forward with this.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Chris