Hi all
Wikimedia Germany has decided to help the OpenStreetMap community, and one part
of this help is providing a place to play with OpenStreetMap-replated projects
on the Toolserver cluster. The policy <https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Rules>
has been changed to reflect this. Section 2 now reads:
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Use of the toolservers must be related to a designated affiliate project (see
below). This rule will be strictly enforced as violations are an abuse of
donated resources. If you are at all unsure if something you want to do is
appropriate, contact ts-admins first.
1. Designated affiliate projects of the toolserver are currently 1) The
Wikimedia Foundation and any of its projects and 2) OpenStreetMap and any of its
projects
2. The use of specific resources like databases or login servers may be reserved
for use with specific projects. For instance, some resources may be set asside
for use for OpenStzreetMap-related projects.
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If you want to start playing with OSM stuff, please be patient for a few more
weeks. Hardware has been ordered (more about that later).
-- daniel
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hi,
for people accessing the Toolserver without their usual SSH client fingerprint
database, there is now a secure way to verify the fingerprint of each system:
https://fingerprints.toolserver.org
the SSL certificate is signed with a valid CA key which should be accepted by
all browsers.
- river.
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hi,
if you have a problem or need support for the Toolserver, you have several
options:
1. ask on IRC (irc.freenode.net #wikimedia-toolserver)
2. open a request in the TS project in JIRA (https://jira.toolserver.org)
- this is preferred for public requests
3. send mail to ts-admins [at] toolserver.org, which will open a private ticket
viewable by all administrators.
what you should not do is send email to me privately. this has been happening
a lot recently and it's annoying. it won't get you support any quicker, all
it'll do is make me not want to deal with your problem.
- river.
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hi,
there will be some maintenance today on the network which hosts the Toolserver.
the expected outage time is less than 15 minutes.
- river.
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hi,
due to some unknown issue at esams, IPv6 connectivity is non-functional. i
have removed AAAA records from DNS until the problem is resolved.
- river.
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hi,
i've installed a mytop replacement called rmytop on nightshade. compared to
mytop, rmytop:
* doesn't flicker when updating the screen when there are a large number of
threads
* is faster
* can connect to multiple servers at once and show queries from all of them
* uses $HOME/.my.cnf instead of requiring its own configuration file
* doesn't corrupt your terminal display by printing random garbage to the
screen
* is actively maintained
to view multiple servers at once:
$ rmytop -h sql-s1 -h sql-s2 -h sql-s3
at some point i'll probably replace mytop with a symlink to rmytop. if rmytop
is missing any features you like from mytop, say so now.
- river.
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hi,
the large size of user databases on the sql server is causing backups to take a
long time to finish, which impacts s2 replication while it's running. if you
have old tables which are no longer needed, please drop them.
- river.
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hi,
zedler (the s2 and /home NFS server) was rebooted for maintenance. this might
improve the slow NFS performance seen recently on the login server. the outage
time was approximately 15 minutes.
additionally, we are testing NFSv4 instead of NFSv3 for /home on wolfsbane (the
web server). if this shows no problems, we will deploy it on nightshade as
well. again, NFSv4 should improve NFS performance for users.
- river.
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hi,
Aryeh Gregor, aka Simetrical, has been added as a Toolserver administrator and
will probably do lots of awesome things.
- river.
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