infrastructure February 2009

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hi, i newly joined fedora infrastructure group
by p sena 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

Hi, I am new to the fedora infrastructure group. I am going throug few of the links in the site to get a feel of the work. I have submitted my .ssh_rsa_key.pub from the site. I think I will get some intimation on this. Please someone can let me know further proceedings from here onwards. Cheers. Regards & Thanks Prabir Senapati mailto: senapati2001(a)yahoo.com

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Hello, My intro
by Chris Johnson 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

Hi all, I've been lurking on the mailing list for a while and I finally registered for my fedora account today (username: chrisj) I'm interested in helping out as time permits. I got on irc once (lurking again) and haven't really logged in since. I'll try to make a few meetings after the holidays I'm planning to get my personal test systems setup soon. I just moved and still getting things straight at home. Bought a 750GB drive last night and will be installing F10 over the weekend. I had been running the U... distro and it's time to get back to the fedora/RH rpm way of doing things :-) I've used RedHat since before Fedora existed (I think 6 was the first one). Started as a hobbyist, 2 years. Then got a job as an admin and have been doing Linux admin and Cisco networks for the last 5 years. My current employer is a Win shop so I just get to run the DNS, email, and network, but the network is 50 remote offices and 3 different data centers in the midwest. I don't mind the Windows too much and can find my way around them, it's also kinda fun to get the Linux and MS products to play nice together. I've worked with a lot of different linux and OSS software products including: postfix, openldap, apache, bind, samba, mailman, pam, built some custom rpm's, etc. I use RHEL mostly at work and some fedora and Cent for testing (some suse, deb, and slackware in the past). I used to do lots of security firewall apliances with various linux distros (I was a big fan of LRP when it would fit on a floppy), most of this is now done with Cisco in my world. I can shell script pretty well and I've written several perl scripts in the last few years (dabbled in php but not enough to know it well). I've always been interested in python but don't have much if any exp with it. I also don't have much experience with SQL/DB or source control. I was looking at the FIGs and would be interested in the base sysadmin and sysadmin-noc for now while I figure out where everything is and what it does. I'm also interested in more info on the sysadmin-tools and sysadmin-web FIG. So, next just apply for the FIGs, keep lurking, ask some questions, show up for IRC meetings? Thanks all, -- Chris Johnson ++++++++++ j.chris.johnson(a)gmail.com ++++++++++++++++++++

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opengroupware evaluation
by Mike McGrath 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

I'd like one of our volunteers to install opengroupware on a publictest server for our evaluation. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1197 This is going to take between 5 and 15 hours a week. Don't volunteer unless you can commit that much time to it. -Mike

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Slight shift in our application strategy
by Mike McGrath 27 Feb '09

27 Feb '09

Background: Shortly after we started scaling out to remote sites we noticed some parts of some of our applications had issues over the vpn link. Initial ticket creation was a bit off as to what we were looking at but: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/281 To try to keep this short: after lots of tests we discovered that applications that run lots of queries are the core of our issue. We have ok bandwidth to all of our sites, but latency is high enough that it's become too expensive to actively run applications at these sites. Every query that gets run at a remote site seems to take a minimum of .3 to .5 seconds for the complete round-trip. As we mature and as features get in lots of our apps need more queries. We can and should go through and make these more efficient but that's going to happen over a long time. We just don't have the number of people we need to do trends on each page of each application and convert all the sql to its most efficient. Instead we're going to convert all of our remote application servers to passive/backup servers. Up until now we've generally been using our remote sites to scale load. Now though we can't really do that. They're an important role for being fairly HA (our SPOF is still our data layer). Having a multi-master data layer of postgres and mysql just won't be a win for us at our size at this time. So what does this mean for the future? Our scaling issues at our app layer will just have to be in a centralized location. This won't scale forever but I think for the near and middle term in Fedora's future it's what we're going to have to bank on. We can continue to focus on better caching at our proxy layer which will continue to be active at each remote site. All of what I've written here is probably very obvious to most of you, and it is. The difference now is we have some much better data concerning the interaction between our app servers and the data layer and better metrics for how long those interactions take. So darnit, I'm not going to spend all the time I did with testing and metrics and not write some long summary about it! :) -Mike

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error syncing from secondary
by Adrian Reber 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

rsyncing from secondary I get following error: rsync: send_files failed to open "/releases/test/9-Beta/Fedora/source/SRPMS/.kernel-2.6.27.12-78.2.9.fc9.src.rpm.U3tJXy" (in fedora-secondary): Permission denied (13) Adrian

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Introduction
by Nadim Kobeissi 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

Hi! My name is Nadim. I'm a psychology sophmore and computer science minor at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon. I became acquainted with Fedora after deciding to try it after three years of Gentoo Linux usage on various servers and desktops I've built and maintained throughout. I found Fedora to be an awesome distribution, and having had much experience with Gentoo server building and administration (I've set up many servers for my university and am the founder of Anapnea, the Open Gentoo Linux shell server (http://anapnea.net)), I felt that maybe I could contribute with my time and skill to help out with the Fedora project as much as I can, in whatever area I am capable to help in. I'll be attending today's IRC fedora-meeting, and I look forward to being able to contribute!! -- Nadim Kobeissi http://nadim.cc

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QA!
by Mike McGrath 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

If you all have some time tomorrow go through here and pick an item out of the matrix and test it: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_11_Alpha_Install_Test_Results The earlier we find problems the better F11 will be. Seeing as most of us on the list have a lot of admin background, doing simple installs should be easy :) -Mike

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Potential project for Fedora Infrastructure newcomers: Deploy Review Board for use by hosted projects
by Jeffrey Ollie 23 Feb '09

23 Feb '09

Hello newcomers to Fedora Infrastructure! There have been quite a few of you popping up lately, but there hasn't been a lot for you to do yet. Well here's your chance. I'd like to investigate adding Review Board <http://code.google.com/p/reviewboard/> as a service for Fedora Hosted projects. Review Board is a web based tool for managing code reviews. If this is something that you'd like to work on, here's an outline of what needs to happen. 1. Package Review Board for Fedora (and EPEL too, as Fedora Infrastructure typically deploys services on RHEL 5). This will be useful even if we decide not to deploy Review Board for Fedora Hosted. 2. Install & configure Review Board on a test system and figure out how to Puppetize the configs. 3. Get feedback from the community and decide if we want to deploy as production. 4. Assist in the deployment to production and help with day-to-day management. If you're interested, here's the ticket I'm using to track progress: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1196 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Fedora Infrastructure <trac(a)fedorahosted.org> Date: Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:10 AM Subject: [Fedora Infrastructure] #1196: Deploy Review Board for use by hosted projects To: Cc: ricky(a)fedoraproject.org #1196: Deploy Review Board for use by hosted projects -----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Reporter: jcollie | Owner: sysadmin-hosted-members(a)fedoraproject.org Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: Hosted Projects | Version: Severity: Normal | Keywords: -----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Review Board is a tool for managing code reviews. Digium has been successfully using it to review code submissions for Asterisk for several months now. It would be very useful to offer this to hosted projects for their use. Home page: http://code.google.com/p/reviewboard/ Digium's installation: http://reviewboard.digium.com/ Review Board itself would need to be packaged, but it appears that all of the dependencies are already in Fedora: http://code.google.com/p/reviewboard/wiki/Host_Requirements -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1196> Fedora Infrastructure <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure> Fedora Infrastructure Project for Bugs, feature requests and access to our source code. -- Jeff Ollie "You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." -- Marcus to Franklin in Babylon 5: "A Late Delivery from Avalon"

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security policy addition
by Mike McGrath 23 Feb '09

23 Feb '09

Hey all, I've added an additional "Self Access" policy to our security policy: http://infrastructure.fedoraproject.org/csi/security-policy/en-US/html-sing… "Admins and users must not give themselves access to resources unless it is an emergency or a setup issue. Follow normal steps to get in a group and sponsored by someone." Also note that anyone in our sysadmin group with shell access to our servers must be fully compliant with the security standard by the end of March. -Mike

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Re: Outage Notification - Koji, plague 2009-02-21 15:00 UTC
by Dennis Gilmore 23 Feb '09

23 Feb '09

Xavier Lamien wrote: > 2009/2/14 Dennis Gilmore <dennis(a)ausil.us>: > >> There will be an outage starting at 2009-02-21 15:00 UTC, which will last >> approximately 48 hours. >> >> To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto >> or run: >> >> date -d '2009-02-21 15:00 UTC' >> >> Affected Services: >> >> Buildsystem (koji and plague) >> >> Unaffected Services: >> 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/1187 >> >> Reason for Outage: >> Maintenance of /mnt/koji filesystem, >> koji DB Maintainence >> Upgrade koji to support EPEL, noarch subpackages, srpm's built in a chroot. >> along with lots of bug fixes. >> >> Contact Information: >> >> Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to >> track the status of this outage. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list >> Fedora-infrastructure-list(a)redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list >> >> >> > > Just a heads-up > The outage is still going > This is still ongoing. A final Done email will be sent when you can submit builds again. Thanks for your paitence. Dennis

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