Re: [Toolserver-l] Server switch for s3/s4/s6, Monday morning UTC

2010-03-29 Thread Fahad Sadah
> That would not surprise me, since as I said, we've been having this > problem for quite a while. This is quite hilarious to read. Golem was causing a large proportion of the previous problems with MySQL, and you didn't kn

Re: [Toolserver-l] Changes to expired accounts web hosting

2010-02-06 Thread Fahad Sadah
ode more openly even retroactively. Very very free licenses (MIT/X11 or WTFPL, for example) can be revoked. Fahad Sadah ___ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guid

Re: [Toolserver-l] Linux/Solaris

2009-12-28 Thread Fahad Sadah
It's easier for the admins to maintain Fahad Sadah 2009/12/28 Pietrodn > Il giorno 28/dic/2009, alle ore 18.08, River Tarnell ha scritto: > > > With this in mind, it might make sense to dispose of the Linux login > server entirely, and convert it to Solaris. But before

Re: [Toolserver-l] Merry Christmas

2009-12-24 Thread Fahad Sadah
Yeah, Merry Christmas Fahad Sadah 2009/12/24 Platonides > emijrp escribió: > > Hi people; > > > > I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy Toolserver New Year. I hope > > we will develop many useful tools in the next year (remember small > > langu

Re: [Toolserver-l] [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts looking for a developer

2009-12-06 Thread Fahad Sadah
It needs to ask for a registered Freenode IRC nickname, and verify it (obviously can't be done in JS) Fahad Sadah 2009/12/6 Soxred93 > For what it's worth, I have just written a JavaScript cloak > generator: > http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/ttestjs/<http://toolserver.o

Re: [Toolserver-l] Fwd: [Toolserver-announce] Account-Extending December

2009-12-05 Thread Fahad Sadah
Please file a request in JIRA Fahad Sadah 2009/12/5 Laszlo Kozma > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Laszlo Kozma > Date: Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 8:11 PM > Subject: Re: [Toolserver-announce] [Toolserver-l] Account-Extending > December > To: "DaB." > &

Re: [Toolserver-l] [Accounts-enwiki-l] Fwd: NFS maintenance, Friday 13th November

2009-11-11 Thread Fahad Sadah
Friday 13th? Let's hope nothing goes wrong. Fahad Sadah 2009/11/11 Simon Walker > -- Forwarded message -- > From: River Tarnell > Date: 2009/11/10 > Subject: [Toolserver-l] NFS maintenance, Friday 13th November > To: toolserver-annou...@lists.wikimedia.or

Re: [Toolserver-l] How to determine if script runs in the toolserver cluster?

2009-09-02 Thread Fahad Sadah
Could parse hostname --fqdn Fahad Sadah 2009/9/2 River Tarnell > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Darren R. Hardy: > > I use this in my shell scripties: > > > if [ "`hostname --domain 2>/dev/null`" = "toolserver.org" ]; then

Re: [Toolserver-l] an idea

2009-08-27 Thread Fahad Sadah
2009/8/27 Henrik Hodne : > On 27. aug. 2009, at 10.14, Leszek Krupinski wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Henrik Hodne >> wrote: Out of interest, how would these limited rights be implemented? >>> >>> I would guess that the easiest way would be some kind of daemon >>> running as r

Re: [Toolserver-l] an idea

2009-08-27 Thread Fahad Sadah
> does this seem like something that would be helpful?  and, if we > introduced it, would anyone be interested in such privileges?  (we would > probably require a good knowledge of Unix and at least some experience > with system administration.) I am interested. I have plenty of experience with Un

[Toolserver-l] Voluteering

2009-08-21 Thread Fahad Sadah
How does one volunteer to become a toolserver admin, or, if there are too many security/trust problems, any other helpful job? Fahad Sadah ___ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Toolserver-l] commonswiki status

2009-08-20 Thread Fahad Sadah
nt >>> > [...] > > New style, middle posting? :) > > ___ > Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l > Posting guidelines for this list: > https://wiki.toolserver.org

Re: [Toolserver-l] change of regular expression behaviour in rewrite scripts

2009-08-19 Thread Fahad Sadah
Would lighttpd/nginx be any better? I've had good experience with those. Fahad Sadah ___ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list:

Re: [Toolserver-l] RfC: globalsitenotice

2009-08-16 Thread Fahad Sadah
> ...If the roots know about a planed downtime Please consider making this file 666, so anyone can update the status, wiki-style? ___ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l

Re: [Toolserver-l] s1 status

2009-08-08 Thread Fahad Sadah
> the s1 server (rosemary) has a faulty motherboard which is causing > system crashes.  we will replace the part next week; until then, access > to s1 will be intermittently offline. Was this the cause of the increasing replag? Fa

Re: [Toolserver-l] where's enwiki_p on s1?

2009-08-06 Thread Fahad Sadah
s1 has finished reimporting, according to River. Fahad Sadah ___ Toolserver-l mailing list Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l

Re: [Toolserver-l] The Norwegian toolserver

2009-08-01 Thread Fahad Sadah
Especially with those three Sun servers you plan to buy. Fahad Sadah 2009/8/2 River Tarnell > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Wolfgang ten Weges: > > Since it's the case, people only using tools that does not need DB > > replication could g

Re: [Toolserver-l] The Norwegian toolserver

2009-08-01 Thread Fahad Sadah
ly paste a private key > somewhere, and it's impossible to guess. even if it was leaked, the user > would also have to leak the passphrase. > I doubt many people here use passphrases Kerberos was just an example, btw. I was jus

Re: [Toolserver-l] login.toolserver.org

2009-08-01 Thread Fahad Sadah
Gmail automatically writes above the quoted text. Fahad Sadah 2009/8/1 Pietrodn > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Il giorno 01/ago/09, alle ore 16:21, Henrik Hodne ha scritto: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > >

Re: [Toolserver-l] The Norwegian toolserver

2009-08-01 Thread Fahad Sadah
Kerberos authentication. Easier than pubkeys, and more secure. Fahad Sadah 2009/7/29 John at Darkstar > Perhaps there could be some kind of central management of some kind. > > One thing is distribution of the open databases. It should not be > necessary to set up replication

Re: [Toolserver-l] login.toolserver.org

2009-08-01 Thread Fahad Sadah
Perhaps it could be made into a DNS round-robin? Fahad Sadah 2009/7/21 River Tarnell > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > hi, > > in the past we provided the login.toolserver.org alias, which pointed at > the > login server. we have decided to depre

Re: [Toolserver-l] multi-maintainer tools

2009-07-27 Thread Fahad Sadah
I wıll when I'm back ın England (1st August). Easıer than wrıtıng my own [?] Fahad Sadah 2009/7/27 Magnus Manske > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 5:34 PM, River > Tarnell wrote: > > at the moment, there is no advantage to using a multi-maintainer tool; > however, > >