infrastructure August 2006

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[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Partitioning for New Servers
by Warren Togami 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

RH Kernel Engineer Rik van Riel recommended that we use LVM on our new servers for flexibility in both the host and guest partitions. If we reserve two non-LVM partitions on the primary system disk, then we will be able to safely remote install a new OS later. We can boot anaconda automated with kickstart or driven with VNC and reinstall without harming the existing OS. If we fail, simply fallback thanks to grub savedefault --once. After install, grub chainloading to the second /boot can boot the second OS. After we confirm the new OS is working fine, we can blow away the original host OS and reclaim the space thanks to LVM. The purchased Dell box has four disks. The donated Dell box has two disks. Here's how I envision the first two disks would be partitioned: /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 => /dev/md1 /boot 200MB /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2 => /dev/md2 /boot2 200MB (reserved for later) /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3 => /dev/md3 vg0 LVM vg0 contains: swap 2GB / 10GB for host OS All remaining space can be allocated later for Xen guests or to grow the root partition of the host as needed. The server with the additional two disks can software RAID-1 the entire disk, and provide additional flexible storage as vg1 LVM. Xen guests can go on either vg0 or vg1. We can migrate stuff as needed to balance I/O load. Due to instability of Xen in rawhide in the short-term, we should avoid upgrading the host OS until it has stabilized as we approach FC6-final. It should be relatively safe because the host OS is running only sshd and is accessible only via bastion. Later we will be able to safely install a host into another LVM partition to see if it runs our guests, so risk and hassle is really minimal here. This is just ideas from my head. If anybody here has better ideas please suggest. Warren Togami wtogami(a)redhat.com

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[Fedora-infrastructure-list] A cvs space for the Usability Sig
by Damien Durand 27 Aug '06

27 Aug '06

Hello, I would like to ask for a cvs space for the Usability Sig so as to host temporarily some documentations, codes and patches, allowing a more efficient and productive work. Thanks in advance Damien Durand

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[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Stuff to do
by Mike McGrath 27 Aug '06

27 Aug '06

Hello everyone. For those looking for stuff to do, have a look at the ticketing system for open tickets. Many of these issues are still un-owned: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/tickets/customer.pl?Action=CustomerTicketOv… You must have a Fedora account to access this system. -Mike

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[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Infrastructure Package Management
by Mike McGrath 25 Aug '06

25 Aug '06

So in the meeting today we've discussed what to do about our package management. At present FC3 will be EOL'd in april(ish). At that time many of the packages we use in our environment will become out of date. So options are an upgrade to RHEL5 when it is released (which we aren't even done upgrading everything to RHEL4 yet), building and supporting our own repo, or try to foster support for centos.karan.org or https://extras.108.redhat.com/ As always this is an open discussion, I'd encourage anyone with ideas to participate. The meeting notes will be out shortly. -Mike

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[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Meeting log Aug-24-2006
by Mike McGrath 24 Aug '06

24 Aug '06

Small meeting, not too many people were able to attend. The biggest item was package managment. -Mike

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[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Re: Fedora CVS - Not sending out commit messages
by Max Spevack 24 Aug '06

24 Aug '06

Adding the fedora-infrastructure-list -- those would be the best people to look into it. It certainly seems like there's a problem -- hopefully we can resolve it ASAP. --Max ===================== On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Nathan Kinder wrote: > Hi Max, > > Our checkins to the /cvs/dirsec repository on cvs.fedora.redhat.com > usually end up sending commit messages to the fedora-directory-commits > mailing list. This notification mechanism no longer seems to be working. > I'm not sure when it stopped working exactly, but the last notification > that was received was on 08/09. I have checked with some other team > members, and they have experienced the same thing. > > Is this a problem on the cvs server? > > Thanks, > -NGK -- Max Spevack + http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack + gpg key -- http://spevack.org/max.asc + fingerprint -- CD52 5E72 369B B00D 9E9A 773E 2FDB CB46 5A17 CF21

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[Fedora-infrastructure-list] fp.org email addresses coming up as spam
by Max Spevack 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

Anyone else seen complaints of things like this? I have my settings quite low, and we're still getting flagged. 2.7 HELO_DYNAMIC_DHCP Relay HELO'd using suspicious hostname (DHCP) 3.3 HELO_DYNAMIC_HCC Relay HELO'd using suspicious hostname (HCC) http://www.google.com/search?q=HELO_DYNAMIC_DHCP Thought I'd throw this out there for anyone who's interested in doing some digging, see under what circumstances fp.o emails are triggering these flags. --Max ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Received: from localhost by mspevack.rdu.redhat.com with SpamAssassin (version 3.1.3); Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:20:47 -0400 From: Jack Aboutboul <jaboutboul(a)fedoraproject.org> To: Markster(a)digium.com Subject: *****SPAM***** Fedora and Asterisk Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:19:38 -0400 Message-Id: <1156360778.23913.8.camel@deepfort> X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on mspevack.rdu.redhat.com X-Spam-Level: ***** X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=5.9 required=5.0 tests=HELO_DYNAMIC_DHCP, HELO_DYNAMIC_HCC,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=no version=3.1.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------=_44ECAA8F.C1433263" Spam detection software, running on the system "mspevack.rdu.redhat.com", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: Hey Mark, I am at Red Hat HQ for the week and part of our Fedora meetings have been regarding how we can help make Fedora a viable platform for innovation for certain key technologies which have the most potential. Naturally, voip came up and a number of people spoke about Asterisk and how we can work together with you guys. [...] Content analysis details: (5.9 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 2.7 HELO_DYNAMIC_DHCP Relay HELO'd using suspicious hostname (DHCP) 3.3 HELO_DYNAMIC_HCC Relay HELO'd using suspicious hostname (HCC) 0.0 UNPARSEABLE_RELAY Informational: message has unparseable relay lines

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[Fedora-infrastructure-list] when to use OTRS (Was: Re: FESCo, hello? - [was: Re: Buildsys status pages down])
by Thorsten Leemhuis 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

Michael Schwendt schrieb: > On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:36:58 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote: >> Error was: [('SSL routines', 'SSL3_READ_BYTES', 'sslv3 alert >> certificate expired'), ('SSL routines', 'SSL3_WRITE_BYTES', 'ssl >> handshake failure')] > > So, would anyone please give a short introduction on when the OTRS > ticketing system ought to be used instead of bugzilla? > [...] > What I'm still missing is the announcement for everyone. Which system do > we use when? Well, don't ask FESCO, let's ask and kick the proper people: fedora-infrastructure(a)redhat.com (CCed) I'd be interested in the answers, too. I don't really like having two systems and would have prepared if we (people outside of the infrastructure group) stick to bugzilla. CU thl

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[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Welcome new people
by Mike McGrath 20 Aug '06

20 Aug '06

I've noticed many new people showing interest in our infrastructure and wanted to make sure to welcome everyone. If you haven't sent some sort of introduction email to the list feel free to do it. Also include exactly what stuff you're interested in working on. I've altered the schedule page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Schedule I've changed "owner" to "project leader" since really many of these tasks should be multi person. Also many people go to the project page and see that all the tasks are 'taken' not realizing that there's still much much work to be done. Anyone who has already taken leadership with one project I'd encourage a status report sent to the list if you're inters ted in some more hands on it. The multi-tier security stuff is coming soon so we should be able to open up our resources to more people without putting us at any additional risk :) To the new people, welcome. Most of our communication happens here, in the Thursday meetings or on the Wiki. The lay of the land is pretty simple, make sure you're vocal about what you want to work on and let the infrastructure-list/project leader know. People come and go all the time and any help that can be lended will be useful. Become familiar with the wiki page. If you have any questions feel free to ask me or anyone else on the list. It may seem like everything is taken but really everyone could use a hand from time to time. -Mike

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[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Meeting Log 2006-08-17
by Dennis Gilmore 19 Aug '06

19 Aug '06

Hey guys, attached is the log from the meeting yesterday. We covered a fairly large amount of things which was good. We really need someone to step up and replace pasqual with unifying the look and feel of the websites. as well as to get things rolling on the FPD. Thanks to all those who participated. Regards Dennis

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