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noc2 Rebuild - Outage Notification - 2008-12-03 07:00 UTC
by Nigel Jones 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

There will be an outage starting at 2008-12-03 07:00 UTC, which will last approximately 2 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2008-12-03 07:00 UTC' Affected Services: Nagios Monitoring on noc2 Unaffected Services: Buildsystem CVS / Source Control Database DNS Fedora Hosted Fedora People Fedora Talk Mail Mirror System Torrent Translation Services Websites Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1025 Reason for Outage: Rebuild of our external monitoring box (noc2) at Telia (EU), mainly for geographic diversity and to free resources (RAM) at Tummy Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage.

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RFR: fedora-event-splash
by Ian Weller 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1026 The RFR is attached as a text file, too. Nigel has stated he'll sponsor this. -- Ian Weller <ianweller(a)gmail.com> http://ianweller.org GnuPG fingerprint: E51E 0517 7A92 70A2 4226 B050 87ED 7C97 EFA8 4A36 "Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet." ~ Douglas Adams

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Obligatory First Post
by Jay Chandler 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

Greetings! My name is Corey "Jay' Chandler, and I'm a Linux admin. Besides a general knowledge of standard Linux admin tasks, I specialize in monitoring (Nagios and Cacti at the current gig, a handful of other packages (including Zabbix) over the years), httpd, and DNS-- but the area I really shine in is email, from MTA to anti-spam to list management. I've been active in the Unix/Linux world for roughly five years now, both as a user and as a systems admin. I just discovered the Fedora Infrastructure project today, and I must say, I'm enthused. I've always wanted to contribute to an open source project, but given that I can't code my way out of a paper bag at this point, that's been rather difficult. The dayjob keeps me busy in a primarily CentOS environment, so I'm no stranger to the RedHat way of systems design. Feel free to let me know where I can best be of use! -- Corey Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: Forced to support NT servers; sysadmins quit

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Fixing CSRF exploits in Infrastructure
by Toshio Kuratomi 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

Greetings all, I've been researching the CSRF exploit and how it affects our web apps recently. The short story is that our code is pretty open to this at the moment. I've written up a proposal for fixing this but it will require a lot of coding so I'd love to have some more eyes on it to make sure I'm not making any stupid mistakes. The proposal is here:: https://fedorahosted.org/fas/wiki/CSRF The ticket for the overall CSRF fixing is here:: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/992 I consider fixing this to be a fairly high priority so I'll be starting work on implementing this for a few pkgdb methods very soon. Assuming the technique works we'll need to port every method that can change data in every app to use this. -Toshio

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Patch to fix EPEL dep scripts
by Michael Stahnke 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

I think I solved the repo-closure/deps scripts issues. Now it should be back to sending only one email, (instead of 6). Also, there was an indentation issue in the reporting program that was causing the dependencies problems to be cleared. Please test this once before putting in production. I tested the best I could on publictest16 and my home systems, but I didn't have full access to all yum repos anywhere. Additionally, I changed the shell script to reference local copies of yum.conf and rc-report.cfg. I think that is probably ok, but somebody should verify. stahnma

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Re: Introduction...
by Mark True 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

My username is darfoo, and I applied to the sysadmin group. I guess I am pretty much interested in whatever FIG needs me, but primarily sysadmin-releng and sysadmin-noc --Mark T. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike McGrath" <mmcgrath(a)redhat.com> Sent: Mon, December 1, 2008 16:30 Subject:Re: Introduction... On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Mark True wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I am interested in joining the Fedora sysadmins and infrastructure team > and helping out. I have been using Linux for more than 10 years on my own > and in various jobs. Over that time, I have used Slackware, Gentoo, > Debian, Redhat, Ubuntu and of course Fedora. My exposure to all these > different distributions has given me a wide variety of experiences with > how various people implement a system. Most of the companies I have > worked for have used RHEL on the corporate servers and Fedora or Ubuntu on > the desktops. In my roll as either systems engineer, software developer > or QA engineer I have always played ad-hoc sysadmin for people because of > my knowledge. I have experience with bash, Perl, Python and C/C++, and > many different kinds of system utilities. I would love to contribute my > talents with tools and knowledge toward supporting the Fedora project. > Hello Mark, was there any particular FIG you are interested in? Also have you applied for the sysadmin group yet? What is your account name? -Mike ----- End of original message -----

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Introduction...
by Mark True 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Hey Guys, I am interested in joining the Fedora sysadmins and infrastructure team and helping out. I have been using Linux for more than 10 years on my own and in various jobs. Over that time, I have used Slackware, Gentoo, Debian, Redhat, Ubuntu and of course Fedora. My exposure to all these different distributions has given me a wide variety of experiences with how various people implement a system. Most of the companies I have worked for have used RHEL on the corporate servers and Fedora or Ubuntu on the desktops. In my roll as either systems engineer, software developer or QA engineer I have always played ad-hoc sysadmin for people because of my knowledge. I have experience with bash, Perl, Python and C/C++, and many different kinds of system utilities. I would love to contribute my talents with tools and knowledge toward supporting the Fedora project. Hope to hear from you! --Mark T.

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Change request: SELinux tweaks.
by Luke Macken 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Attached are some patches that will fix many AVC's that are currently happening within our infrastructure. Patch 0010-Fix-our-semanage_fcontext-function-to-work-on-symlin.patch /should/ fix the problem introduced in 41acfbc83c80d12d915a0d6087e841aba2c7e78c that caused restorecon to flip out when trying to apply context to a symlink. The rest should all be fairly straight-forward fixes that involve flipping booleans, setting context, and creating custom policy modules. Apologies for the binary blobs in the diffs :) luke

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