GNOME sysadmin summary - July 2005

[Ross Golder <ross golder org>]

(Looks like I perhaps forgot to send this last month...)

GNOME Sysadmin Summary - July 2005
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At the beginning of the month, there were problems with pserver CVS
access and DNS propogation still outstanding from last month's server
move. The DNS problems were caused by a combination of Ross not updating
the 'whois' information correctly (misunderstood NetworkSolutions
interface) and the admins for the slave servers not updating their
master IP responsively.

On Friday 1st, Luis Villa spotted that the 'submit gnome org' alias
wasn't working, as a result of some recent changes intended to direct
the flow of all incoming external mail to the gnome.org servers via
menubar (for anti-spam/virus filtering first). Bug-buddy reports were
being rejected. Ross added menubar as the highest MX record which
resolved the problem.

On Saturday 2nd, Stric noticed that ftp.gnome.org wasn't able to connect
via rsync to master (window). On Tuesday 6th, Matthew Galgoci came back
to say they'd opened up the rsync port on one of the firewalls in front
of window.

On Monday 4th, Matthew replaced one of the drives in the RAID array on
menubar that had been giving faults for a couple of days. He'd replaced
a similar drive in window the previous week.

On Tuesday 5th, our 'orgo.progsoc.uts.edu.au' DNS slave started syncing
again (thanks Anund Kumria).

On Wednesday 6th, our 'ns.axu.tm' DNS slave started syncing again
(thanks Aleksi Suhonen).

On Thursday 7th, anoncvs5 developed a problem it's password file. Ramons
quickly resolved it.

On Thursday 7th, a 'mail for bugs.gnome.org loops back to myself' SMTP
error was reported. Ross added a Postfix 'transport' entry to push the
mail from menubar to window.

On Thursday 7th (busy day), Owen corrected some CVS madness in the
drivel module that apparently occurred as a result of a CVS bug.
Reported by Todd (drivel maintainer).

On Friday 8th, Gregory McLean reported that posts to 'cvs-commits-list'
had stopped. Gregory suggested that it was because the commit mails had
started being ent out as 'gnome.org' instead of 'container.gnome.org',
which was conflicting with the 'allowed senders' filters for those
lists. On Monday 25th, this change in behaviour was reverted by forcing
myorigin in the Postfix config. That seems to have fixed it for
cvs-commits-list, but there is still a problem that seems to be
affecting 'cvs-commits-po-list' (reported seperately on gnome-i18n).

On Wednesday 20th, Murray Cumming requested 'xml2po' (part of
gnome-doc-utils) be installed on window for the developer.g.o. docs
generation. Ross installed it and it's dependencies. Unfortunately, it
ended up giving Murray a stacktrace. Murray requested python be
upgraded, but so far nobody seems willing to take it on (at least, not
before an upgrade to RHEL4).

--
Ross