Box-Admins January 2012

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RE: mailing list working?
by Ken Causey 28 Jan '12

28 Jan '12

If by 'disguuuuusting' you are referring to the archive for 1/2012 I believe I've found the cause for that and am regenerating the archive now; as a result mailman is stopped for the moment. Mailman assume any line that starts with 'From ' is the start of a new message. Anything that generates a .mbox file is supposed to prefix any line that starts with 'From ' that is not the very first line of a message with '>', but at some point quite a few messages ended up in the archive without that done. Mailman includes a utility to fix this and I've done that and the archive is regenerating now, hopefully in better shape. Ken > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: mailing list working? > From: Chris Cunnington <smalltalktelevision(a)gmail.com> > Date: Fri, January 27, 2012 9:45 pm > To: Ken Causey <ken(a)kencausey.com> > Cc: "Bert Freudenberg" <bert(a)freudenbergs.de>, "Randal L. Schwartz" > <merlyn(a)stonehenge.com>, "Colin Putney" <colin(a)wiresong.com>, "Levente > Uzonyi" <leves(a)elte.hu>, "Assumpcao Jr." <jecel(a)merlintec.com>, "Chris > Muller" <asqueaker(a)gmail.com>, "Casey Ransberger" > <casey.obrien.r(a)gmail.com>, box-admins(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org > > > We're back. And it looks disguuuuusting. > C'est la vie. > > Thanks, Ken. > > Chris > On 2012-01-27, at 10:00 PM, Ken Causey wrote: > > > OK, I think we are back to life again with squeak-dev. It seems the > > problem was with a couple of messages sent recently by NISHIHARA Satoshi > > <goonsh(a)gmail.com> that included an attachment which specified an > > encoding of iso-2022-jp which the digest part of mailman totally choked > > on and refused to continue. I deleted those messages from the file that > > was collecting the messages for the digest and I believe my test message > > after that went through. > > > > Ken > >

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RE: mailing list working?
by Ken Causey 28 Jan '12

28 Jan '12

OK, the archive generation has completed and mailman is back up now. The result this time is better but still not perfect. There are a number of messages for which the archiving program could not determine the proper date and as a result they ended up placed at the end of the list and therefore in the January 2012 section. Hopefully we can deal with that. Ken

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RE: mailing list working?
by Ken Causey 28 Jan '12

28 Jan '12

OK, I think we are back to life again with squeak-dev. It seems the problem was with a couple of messages sent recently by NISHIHARA Satoshi <goonsh(a)gmail.com> that included an attachment which specified an encoding of iso-2022-jp which the digest part of mailman totally choked on and refused to continue. I deleted those messages from the file that was collecting the messages for the digest and I believe my test message after that went through. Ken

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Re: mailing list working?
by Bert Freudenberg 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Very curious. How could the board list work and not squeak-dev? I'll cc the box admins, maybe that list still works ... - Bert - On 25.01.2012, at 20:13, Chris Cunnington wrote: > OK. I concur. > > I tried pinging Squeak-dev. It's down. > The Squeak Board mailing list works. > Mailman, I guess. > > Chris > > > On 2012-01-25, at 10:14 PM, Chris Muller wrote: > >> Gents, I posted some packages into trunk today, but I don't see any >> messages on squeak-dev to that effect. We might be down again..? >

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Legitimate Attachment Size
by Casey Ransberger 25 Jan '12

25 Jan '12

While I was clearing out the spam queue (which, due to survival obligations, I can't do as much as I'd like to) I found that all of the messages in the queue which were legitimate were being blocked because of size-of-message. Usually the culprit was attached MC stuff, and it was usually some number of K over the limit. To my mind, if MC package updates attached to email messages wherein authors want feedback are getting stuck in the spam queue, we have probably two issues: 1) MC archives are fatty. 2) Since we need to be able to shuffle them around, as well as whole images, our limbo bar isn't tall enough for our current data needs. I haven't looked into it yet, but I'd bet we can modify the size of an acceptable message. I have a personal feeling that we ought to double it. The maximum probably hasn't been looked at for at least one Moore's storage/bandwidth cycle. Thoughts? I'd particularly like to hear from folks who have Mailman experience. And all Box-Admins for good measure. Sorry to pick on you: Ken, Randal. Just a thought, feel free to shoot me down, C

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Apache down
by Janko Mivšek 21 Jan '12

21 Jan '12

Hi guys, It seems that Apache front web server is down. I restarted website image as well, but does not help. Best regards Janko -- Janko Mivšek Svetovalec za informatiko Eranova d.o.o. Ljubljana, Slovenija www.eranova.si tel: 01 514 22 55 faks: 01 514 22 56 gsm: 031 674 565

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RE: [Box-Admins] Apache down
by Ken Causey 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

www.squeak.org was again unresponsive and pegging the CPU. I killed it and checked the .image file and it is irregularly large, 88MB. I checked the backups and although they vary all the backups from the last 5 days have similarly large images. So I just started it up again with the current image. It's fine for now, but I have to wonder how long it will remain up. Ken > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [Box-Admins] Apache down > From: Ken Causey <ken(a)kencausey.com> > Date: Mon, January 16, 2012 12:17 pm > To: Squeak Hosting Support <box-admins(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org>, > janko.mivsek(a)eranova.si > > > I've restarted things and they seem OK for the moment. > > Between the two of them SqueakMap and the www.squeak.org were stealing > all the resources so I shut them down temporarily. Then I restarted > apache and confirmed it was working OK again and then restarted > SqueakMap and www.squeak.org. > > Janko: Be sure when you restart the website process that you use > vncserver -kill :1 (or whichever X display it is currently using). > You have been leaving around unused vnc processes. > > Ken > > 2012/1/16 Janko Mivšek <janko.mivsek(a)eranova.si>: > > Guys, Apache seems down again :( > > > > Janko > > > > S, Janko Mivšek piše: > >> Göran thanks! > >> Can I put you as someone with root access on another timezone on Nagios > >> monitoring email notifications too? > >> > >> Best regards > >> Janko > >> > >> S, Göran Krampe piše: > >>> On 01/16/2012 10:38 AM, Janko Mivšek wrote: > >>>> Hi guys, > >>>> > >>>> It seems that Apache front web server is down. I restarted website image > >>>> as well, but does not help. > >>>> > >>>> Best regards > >>>> Janko > >>> > >>> I did a stop and start. > >>> > >>> regards, Göran > >>> > >

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Questionable message in squeak-dev moderation queue
by Casey Ransberger 06 Jan '12

06 Jan '12

I'm not sure whether or not to let this one through, and I'd like your advice. It's supposedly a Seaside related PDF on a dropbox style site; I note that malformed PDFs were the most common exploit at least a few years ago. I don't recognize the senders' address (madelynnsmitherman(a)ilslv.com.) I have half a mind to just download the file and see if anything explodes when I open it, but I would blush something fierce if I got sploited! I'm on a Mac and most sploits target Windows vulns, but in recent years there are more and more exploits targeting OS X, so I'm not as confident as I used to be. I'm marking it as Hold for now. Here's the message excerpt: Subject: You have been sent a file (Filename: Seaside-10491.pdf) Sendspace File Delivery Notification:You've got a file called SeasideS122= pdf, (724.97 KB) waiting to be downloaded at sendspace.(It was sent by N= AIDA ).You can use the following link to retrieve your file:DownloadThank= you,The best free file sharing service.<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charset=3DWindows-1= 252"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.2919.6700" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Sendspace File Delivery Notification:<br /> You've got a file called SeasideS122.pdf, (724.97 KB) waiting to be downl= oaded at sendspace.(It was sent by NAIDA ).<br /><br /> You can use the following link to retrieve your file:<br /> <a href=3D" http://likepackers.com/modules/mod_wdbanners/cmgkg.htm">Downlo= ad</a><br /><br /> Thank you,<br /><br /> The best free file sharing service. </BODY></HTML> -- Casey Ransberger

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RE: [squeak-dev] testing - please ignore
by Ken Causey 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

Thanks 217.70.177.40:allow,AXFR="squeakfoundation.org/squeak.org" added to axfrdns configuration. Ken P.S. Just noticed that the way way old list address for the Box-Admins team was in the Cc. I've corrected it in this message and someone needs to update their address book. > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] testing - please ignore > From: Cees de Groot <casedeg(a)gmail.com> > Date: Tue, January 03, 2012 2:02 pm > To: "Ken Causey" <ken(a)kencausey.com> > Cc: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn(a)stonehenge.com>, > box-admins(a)discuss.squeakfoundation.org > > > I can provide secondary on a machine I run (at Inception hosting here in .EU), or Gandi can provide secondary/ternary. For that to work, ns6.gandi.net 217.70.177.40 needs to be allowed to do zone xfers. > > It's indeed not a big thing - with one machine comprising the whole infrastructure, it's hardly relevant if DNS still works when box2 is down :) > > > On 3 Jan, 2012, at 20:23 , Ken Causey wrote: > > > Yes, b.ns was the old Box1 at byteservers (IIRC) and no longer exists. > > We've managed to limp along OK with one for years now. That said, if we > > can use gandi.net as a backup DNS and re-point b.ns at them, that would > > be great. We will need to allow mirroring of the dns records of course. > > > > Ken > > > >> -------- Original Message -------- > >> Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] testing - please ignore > >> From: Cees de Groot <casedeg(a)gmail.com> > >> Date: Tue, January 03, 2012 12:54 pm > >> To: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn(a)stonehenge.com>, Ken Causey > >> <ken(a)kencausey.com> > >> Cc: box-admins(a)discuss.squeakfoundation.org > >> > >> > >> Also added glue records for a.ns and b.ns, threw them into the zone file as well for good measure. I can probably safely swap NS back to the two official nameservers now. > >> > >> Is it correct that b.ns is not responding? > >> > >> On 3 Jan, 2012, at 19:42 , Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > >> > >>>>>>>> "Cees" == Cees de Groot <casedeg(a)gmail.com> writes: > >>> > >>> Cees> Most important is MX, isn't it? Still same box as squeak.org? > >>> > >>> Yeah, if we can get lists.squeakfoundation.org to point A and MX both at > >>> squeak.org, we'll be 90% of the way there. That's what has everything > >>> shut down right now. > >>> > >>> And maybe "discuss.", from the looks of these headers. Same thing. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 > >>> <merlyn(a)stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> > >>> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. > >>> See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion > >

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Request to register a project
by Dimitry Golubovsky 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

Hi, I work on the Android port of COG VM and some related Pharo packages. I am currently hosting them on Squeaksource (http://www.squeaksource.com/EventVM) but Squeaksource is too slow when accessed from the US. I would like to move the hosting of these projects to source.squeak.org as it is much faster from my location. Unfortunately the server at source.squeak.com does not allow me to create a project. I registered at source.squeak.com (initials "dmg"). Please help creating the project. Thank you. -- Dimitry Golubovsky Anywhere on the Web

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