infrastructure March 2008

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48 discussions

ensuring an NFS dir mounted via puppet configs
by Matt Domsch 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

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

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Infrastructure Survey
by Mike McGrath 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

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

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Introduction - Jeremy Fluhmann
by Jeremy Fluhmann 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

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

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vacuum script to delete expired visits
by Toshio Kuratomi 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

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

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MyFedora cross domain authentication issues
by John (J5) Palmieri 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

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>

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Self-Introduction: Lucian Langa
by Lucian Langa 16 Mar '08

16 Mar '08

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

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Introduction (As the 'Getting Started' on Wiki)
by Alessio Giovanni Baroni 16 Mar '08

16 Mar '08

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.

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FAS2->bugzilla permissions
by Jon Stanley 16 Mar '08

16 Mar '08

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

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intruduction
by Lucian Langa 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

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fedorapeople.org notice
by Dennis Gilmore 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

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

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