Re: [Labs-l] Changes to cron on tools

2014-04-30 Thread Marc-André Pelletier
On 03/24/2014 04:43 PM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote: AT THE END OF THAT WEEK: any crontabs you may have had on tools-login or tools-bastion will be moved to the new server, and 'crontab' will be made to use the new system exclusively. You have no intervention to make; this will be done

Re: [Labs-l] Changes to cron on tools

2014-04-30 Thread Liangent
It could be nice to have original crontabs kept somewhere for manual inspection of the automatically prefixed version later. On May 1, 2014 1:33 AM, Marc-André Pelletier mpellet...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 03/24/2014 04:43 PM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote: AT THE END OF THAT WEEK: any crontabs you

Re: [Labs-l] Changes to cron on tools

2014-04-30 Thread Mr. Maximilian Doerr
Or people could do what I do, and place the crontab in a file and call crontab location of file. Makes it really easy to restore the crontabs, if it ever is lost. On Apr 30, 2014, at 1:38 PM, Marc-André Pelletier mpellet...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 04/30/2014 01:37 PM, Liangent wrote: It

Re: [Labs-l] Changes to cron on tools

2014-03-25 Thread Magnus Manske
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote: It will, by offloading that work to tools-sumbit. Funny - writing HTML forms, I too type sumbit *every. single. time.* ___ Labs-l mailing list Labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Labs-l] Changes to cron on tools

2014-03-24 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
Hey all, We've had difficulty in the past with cron jobs not running for a number of reasons (the primary being an overloaded bastion because of bots running on it), so I made a few changes to how cron is to be used in the future to vastly improve reliability: a) cron for tools will now be

Re: [Labs-l] Changes to cron on tools

2014-03-24 Thread Mr. Maximilian Doerr
I assume that means it should make tools-login more stable as well, since the crontab will auto adapt crontab entries to use jsub and not login. On Mar 24, 2014, at 4:43 PM, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote: Hey all, We've had difficulty in the past with cron jobs not running for a

Re: [Labs-l] Changes to cron on tools

2014-03-24 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 03/24/2014 04:51 PM, Mr. Maximilian Doerr wrote: I assume that means it should make tools-login more stable as well It will, by offloading that work to tools-sumbit. -- Marc ___ Labs-l mailing list Labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org