Monthly Archives: October 2010

Maintenance Downtime 2010-10-26 : Report

Posted on 2010/10/26 by Christer Edwards

All – We just finished another maintenance window, which went great. All but two servers were rebooted, and all lights are green on our monitoring server. If I have somehow managed to miss something, please let me know and I’ll … Continue reading →

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Sysadmin Hackfest Proposal – SCALE

Posted on 2010/10/26 by Christer Edwards

Calling all Volunteers – It’s still a ways away, but SCALE is happening this February and I’d like to propose a Sysadmin Hackfest! Currently both Jeff and I plan to be there (we’ll also be doing the GNOME booth), and we’d … Continue reading →

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Improved Mailman List Moderation with Listadmin

Posted on 2010/10/24 by Christer Edwards

The GNOME mail ecosystem is a very busy one, encompassing hundreds of mail aliases, and dozens of mailing lists. Tens of thousands of emails flow through our mail server each day. These numbers grow almost daily and keeping all of … Continue reading →

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Infrastructure Downtime: 2010-10-26 10:00am MDT – 11:00am MDT

Posted on 2010/10/23 by Christer Edwards

The GNOME Sysadmin team would like to propose a maintenance window for 2010-10-26 10:00am MDT – 11:00am MDT (UTC -6). This window will include a short downtime of all services in order to apply kernel updates and other errata. If … Continue reading →

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Wanted: Perl Guru

Posted on 2010/10/12 by Christer Edwards

Here at the GNOME Foundation we maintain a large number of mailman-powered mailing lists, which facilitates discussion on development and related projects. The maintenance and moderation (read: spam filtering) of these lists can become a burden on the list maintainer(s), … Continue reading →

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Infrastructure Downtime: 2010-10-14 10:00am MDT – 11:00am MDT

Posted on 2010/10/11 by Christer Edwards

I would like to propose a short downtime window for progress and socket for 2010-10-14 10:00am – 11:00am MDT. These machines manage the following services: progress.gnome.org: l10n.gnome.org secondary name server socket.gnome.org: crm-test.gnome.org website-editors.gnome.org wptest.gnome.org The purpose of this downtime is to … Continue reading →

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Maintenance Downtime 2010-10-06: Report

Posted on 2010/10/06 by Christer Edwards

This morning we had scheduled maintenance on all GNOME servers, which caused rolling outages of services. All servers should now have all the latest security errata applied, and all services should be available. In the interest of transparency, below you’ll … Continue reading →

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Infrastructure Downtime: 2010-10-06 10:00am EST – 11:00am EST

Posted on 2010/10/04 by Christer Edwards

The GNOME Infrastructure Team is planning regular maintenance for Wed 2010-10-06 at 10:00am EST (UTC -4). This will include brief downtime for all major services while security errata are applied. Please be sure to finish any work and log out … Continue reading →

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Hello World!

Posted on 2010/10/01 by Christer Edwards

I don’t even know where to start! There have been a lot of changes and improvements going on within the GNOME Sysadmin Team lately, and I thought I should share a few of the things we’ve been working on, as … Continue reading →

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