ensuring an NFS dir mounted via puppet configs
by Matt Domsch
app4 needs to have /pub be NFS-mounted, for the mirrormanager crawler
to work correctly. I fixed this now and restarted the crawler.
How can we configure puppet to make sure the right entry in /etc/fstab
is present, and that /pub is mounted?
Thanks,
Matt
--
Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
16 years, 1 month
Infrastructure Survey
by Mike McGrath
For those of you that have a moment, please see this ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/451
And in order of importance, list which bits of Infrastructure are most
important to you and your team. Please remove systems which are trivially
important, not important at all or that you don't use / know about.
If there's services you'd like to see more in Fedora, please note that in
the ticket. Thank you.
-Mike
16 years, 2 months
Introduction - Jeremy Fluhmann
by Jeremy Fluhmann
Hello,
My name is Jeremy Fluhmann and I live in a small community 35 miles north of
San Angelo, TX. I work (commute 45 minutes each way) at Angelo State
University as a Technology Services Specialist. While the title is pretty
ambiguous, I work in the IT department as part of the Infrastructure group.
My job duties are that of a sysadmin. I help maintain the Windows servers,
SAN, and our virtual infrastructure (VMware's ESX servers). Most (not all)
of the linux boxes are currently maintained outside of our group (by people
that used to be in the Infrastructure group), but we're moving towards
bringing those back into our group and switching from Gentoo to Redhat.
Great for me since it will allow me to go to some Redhat training, as I'm
hoping to move into the main Linux admin role.
My background is mainly in developing web-based management tools. I'm a
Perl guy, so all of my stuff thus far has been Perl (along with the usual
XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript). I've picked up a few Python books and have
been wanting to take on a project to help make me learn Python. I've been
running Ubuntu on my $work desktop and laptop for a little over a year and
have previously worked with Fedora and Redhat systems at a previous job
(developing web applications). I run a personal server at home and will
likely be switching it over to Fedora.
As far as community involvment, I ran YAPC::NA 2007 (Yet Another Perl
Conference, North America) and am currently organizing an open source
symposium (http://www.texasoss.org/). I also serve as Vice President of the
Strategic Open Source SIG (a Special Interest Group of the Texas Computer
Education Association) and am looking to organize an Open Source User Group
in San Angelo.
My interest in the group is with the sysadmin-tools, sysadmin-web, and
sysadmin-noc groups. I hope to be able to give back as much as I take away
from the group.
Thanks!
Jeremy
16 years, 2 months
vacuum script to delete expired visits
by Toshio Kuratomi
We were having some problems cleaning out the session table because the
script that was attempting to clean it out were hitting a foreign key
constraint. I've fixed this so that deletes to the visit table now
cascade to the visit_identity table.
We should no longer see errors for this.
-Toshio
16 years, 2 months
MyFedora cross domain authentication issues
by John (J5) Palmieri
Hi guys,
We just recently got a test instance up at publictest10 and I have
started working on accessing resources as an authenticated user. There
is a large issue here however since the browser's security model
rightfully prevents us from doing requests such as this. There are
several ways around this security all with their own pitfalls.
The first one which I use is to have a proxy page which make the calls
on the server which is not subject to the security concerns. The issue
with this is it can't be authenticated and involves shipping data
through an extra server.
The second way is to use JSONP callback script injection. This one
involves the json call returning data as a javascript callback which is
then script injected into the page and eval'ed. This is extremely
insecure as it allows the server to send back any javascript which is
executed on the user's browser. I've tested this by sending an alert
back from bohdi's 'list' call and it can display any data available to
the browser.
Another way which I am not sure is possible would be to do URL rewriting
to make it look like all of our resources are coming from the same
domain, e.g. http://myfedora.fedoraproject.org/bodhi would be rewritten
to point to a bodhi instance. Though this might work if they were
running under the same apache instance, I am pretty sure it would fall
down if they were running on different servers.
The last way, which I discussed with the Fas guys sometime back would be
the ability to forward credentials from a proxy. This would require Fas
support that I am pretty sure is not there yet. I'm not even sure how
it would be implemented.
In any case, there is the issue that needs to be solved. Any input
would be great.
--
John (J5) Palmieri <johnp(a)redhat.com>
16 years, 2 months
Self-Introduction: Lucian Langa
by Lucian Langa
My name is Lucian Langa and I am from Romania.
Since 2000 I started to work as an system administrator.
At the moment I'm working as an admin for a small company here in
Romania.
My job includes maintaining a bunch of linux servers mostly Redhat and
Centos. As well as implementing linux-based hosting environments for
some clients. I was also involved in developing and maintaining a
clustered Web environment for a social network service provider.
As for coding skills I know C, I am the author of a few evolution mail
plugins and I am also involved in Fedora Packaging mantaining a few
packages as well as packaging for Amateur Radio Sig.
Other skills include PHP language, mysql, some Perl.
Cheers!
--lucian
16 years, 2 months
Introduction (As the 'Getting Started' on Wiki)
by Alessio Giovanni Baroni
I am a student of Computer Science at the RomaTre University (Rome, Italy).
At end of the first level (in Italy the University is on 2 levels), I
treated of Java applications
for mobile devices.
I know well the C language and Java; but also I know Python.
I use Linux from 2001, and I used RedHat 8 / 9 and all Fedoras.
For other informations, contact me.
Thank you.
16 years, 2 months
FAS2->bugzilla permissions
by Jon Stanley
Hey guys -
Folks in the fedorabugs group should get the fedora_contrib permission
bit set in bugzilla - I sponsored a new person into fedorabugs this
evening, and they don't seem to be picking up bugzilla permissions
after several hours? Can someone check that the cron that does that
is still functional with FAS2?
Thanks!
-Jon
--
Jon Stanley
Fedora Bug Wrangler
jstanley(a)fedoraproject.org
16 years, 2 months
intruduction
by Lucian Langa
My name is Lucian Langa and I am from Romania.
Since 2000 I started to work as an system administrator.
At the moment I'm working as an admin for a small company here in
Romania.
My job includes maintaining a bunch of linux servers mostly Redhat and
Centos. As well as implementing linux-based hosting environments for
some clients. I was also involved in developing and maintaining a
clustered Web environment for a social network service provider.
As for coding skills I know C, I am the author of a few evolution mail
plugins and I am also involved in Fedora Packaging mantaining a few
packages as well as packaging for Amateur Radio Sig.
Other skills include PHP language, mysql, some Perl.
Cheers!
--lucian
16 years, 2 months
fedorapeople.org notice
by Dennis Gilmore
We had a bit of an oops on fedorapeople.org and had to restore some files from
backup. We don't believe there was any actual data loss but its quite
possible that some files you'd deleted are back. This A) puts some people
over their quota and B) is annoying. Sorry for any confusion (this was a
calamity of errors).
For those of you in group A) just delete the files again :)
Stop on by #fedora-admin if you have any questions.
Fedora Admin Team
16 years, 2 months
