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[heroes] NOTICE: Please Configure Your openSUSE Mirror Appropriately
by Richard Brown 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

Dear openSUSE Mirror Hosts, Thank you for your continued hosting of openSUSE Mirrors. While recently resolving an issue with rsync.opensuse.org we realised that a significant number of you are using rsync.opensuse.org as your content source. rsync.opensuse.org is meant to be a publicly available mirror host, but as registered hosts on this mailing list, you are entitled to use stage.opensuse.org, our dedicated mirror host for you. This server not only provides access to pre-release content, but is the authoritative source for all openSUSE content, including rsync.opensuse.org. As registered mirrors, please configure your sync cronjobs to use stage.opensuse.org instead of rsync.opensuse.org. This is particularly important for mirrors hosting openSUSE Tumbleweed (formerly known as Factory) which has a higher rate of change. While I'm mentioning Tumbleweed, if you are hosting a Tumbleweed mirror, please consider ensuring your sync cronjobs run more often than once every 24 hours. Also, if you are not running a Tumbleweed mirror, please consider altering your configuration to do so. Tumbleweed is more and more a key offering of the openSUSE Project and we really could benefit from more Tumbleweed mirrors. Compared to the "opensuse-full" module the addition of Tumbleweed will take approximately 60GB more disk space with an estimated rate of change of ~5GB per day (with a 'worst-case' rate of change being 60GB which occurs once or twice a year). You can achieve this by altering your sync cronjob to use the "opensuse-full-with-factory" rsync module. This request is part of an ongoing program of improvements including increased bandwidth for stage.opensuse.org expected on 1st March (doubling) & 1st June (4x more, 8x current) If you are experiencing problems with stage.opensuse.org performance, please let us know, especially after the above dates. Your ongoing feedback & support will help us shape and tune these improvements as we go forward. Many Thanks, -- Richard Brown openSUSE Chairman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: heroes+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: heroes+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[heroes] FYI: Infrastructure status
by Lars Vogdt 10 Feb '17

10 Feb '17

Hi @ll I just want to give a short update of the tasks I'm aware of and we discussed during our Christmas meeting: * The FreeIPA machine is up and running now - but currently only reachable via the internal network between the machines in Nuremberg (and we need to make an exception for each machine who wants to have access via firewall rules). So we might be able to switch to a separated LDAP authentication for all services (like Gitlab, Monitoring, Status page, ...) in a few days. => THANKS to darix for his work on this! * I was thinking about the Monitoring part for a while, and came to the conclusion that providing one of the standard monitoring pages to our users might not really be useful for them. So I searched for an alternative and found https://cachethq.io/ - an open source status page system that would allow us to inform our users via personal written notifications, schedule maintenance windows and use an API to automate this. Our users might also benefit from an RSS and Atom feed and can subscribe via Email to services they are interested in. I'm currently working on an initial RPM package in my home and started to play along with the application. * I did not process much in the monitoring area, as I was too busy with other tasks - but at least we have a running VM now that can be used to setup monitoring of the machines running in Nuremberg (volunteers?). And a final question: while I wrote the first two articles of our Christmas meeting on news.opensuse.org, I'm currently not sure if I should also write the final one or if someone else wanted to do this? For me it is important to have such a final article as we discussed about the next steps and their priorities just on the 3rd day - but I'm fine with waiting if someone else just did not find the time to do it. :-) With kind regards, Lars -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: heroes+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: heroes+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[heroes] support for package installation in salt
by Theo Chatzimichos 09 Feb '17

09 Feb '17

Hello, I added support for package installation in salt. Right now I added aaa_base-extras in pillar/common.sls that will be installed in all machines. Assuming we have a proper role grain in a machine set up, we can add packages under pillar/role/$role.sls as well to get it installed on a specific role as well. There is support also for installing packages from a specific repository via the fromrepo attribute, eg zypper: packages: nrpe: fromrepo: openSUSE:infrastructure Let me know if you need further info or if you have further ideas -- Theo Chatzimichos <tampakrap(a)opensuse.org> <tchatzimichos(a)suse.com> System Administrator SUSE Operations and Services Team

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[heroes] mailing list archive ?
by Per Jessen 06 Feb '17

06 Feb '17

Most of our mailing lists do not archive mails within mlmmj, only externally - 86 of 123 lists. This means the functionality of retrieving messages by number (get-NNNNN) is essentially disabled. Unfortunately mlmmj does not handle the situation gracefully - the requester receives nothing when it fails. No error message, nothing. listcontrol.c:869: Unable to open archive file: No such file or directory On those 86 lists, it looks as if the archiving was switched off on 30 March 2015 - does anyone know why? I'm guessing maybe for lack of space? The functionality is probably not much used, but it is documented: https://de.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailinglisten#Einzelne_Nachricht_abrufen Remarkably, it is not documented in the English version: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailing_lists#Retrieval_of_messages_from_t… -- Per Jessen, Zürich (3.5°C) http://www.cloudsuisse.com/ - your owncloud, hosted in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: heroes+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: heroes+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[heroes] reminder: IRC / real life Heroes meeting
by Christian Boltz 04 Feb '17

04 Feb '17

Hello, the next Heroes meeting is scheduled for sunday (Feb 5) at 15:00 CET (that's 14:00 UTC). Those who visit FOSDEM will probably meet somewhere[tm], and the poor guys who had to stay at home can join over IRC ;-) BTW: Google released the "Site Reliability Engeneering" book that describes how Google runs its systems for online reading at https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html I didn't have time to look at it yet (except the TOC, which looks promising), so if someone is faster in reading it, please give a short summary if it's worth reading ;-) Regards, Christian Boltz -- Es ist im Moment recht ruhig, ja. Und das obwohl die ersten 9.3er Pakete mittlerweile im Umlauf sind. Ob SuSE inzwischen so gut ist, dass die Leute einfach keine Probleme mehr haben? (je nach eigenen Erfahrungen, bitte Ironie-Tags setzen, oder eben nicht) [Manfred Tremmel in suse-linux] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: heroes+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: heroes+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[heroes] Wiki upgrade
by Christoph Wickert 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

Hi there, AFAIK Christian packaged everything we need to update MediaWiki to 1.27 and successfully runs the new version on his laptop already. What prevents us from updating? Do we already have a test machine in our infrastructure where interested wiki editors could play around? Best regards, Christoph -- Christoph Wickert <cwickert(a)suse.de> Technical Writer SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nürnberg Tel: +49-911-74053-0; Fax: +49-911-7417755; https://www.suse.com/ SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)

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[heroes] update baloo to leap
by Theo Chatzimichos 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

Hello, we need to update baloo to 42.2, right now it is running SLE12SP1. Our options are: 1) new machine with 42.2 2) full system backup and zypper dup I would prefer the second, it is faster and I don't expect issues for such an update. Opinions -- Theo Chatzimichos <tampakrap(a)opensuse.org> <tchatzimichos(a)suse.com> System Administrator SUSE Operations and Services Team

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[heroes] gitlab.o.o accounts created
by Theo Chatzimichos 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

Hello, gitlab.o.o is now accessible from the web, and I have created accounts as well. The accounts are added to the infra group with "developer" access level, so that they have access to pull and push to the infra/salt repository, apart from the production branch. So for now you will have to create merge requests, and one with master access level will have to merge it. For now the gitlab accounts will be local, since the ldap is not ready yet. Please let me know if I forgot anybody. For further questions / clarifications feel free to ask me here or in IRC -- Theo Chatzimichos <tampakrap(a)opensuse.org> <tchatzimichos(a)suse.com> System Administrator SUSE Operations and Services Team

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[heroes] root@hilbertn.suse.de ?
by Per Jessen 16 Jan '17

16 Jan '17

Since around December 8 2016, this address has been producing hundreds of undeliverables. I deleted most from the queue yesterday. The mails are coming from relay[12].suse.de and are sent to "opensuse-commit". It appears that the address used to be "root(a)hilbert.suse.de", but was changed to "root(a)hilbertn.suse.de". I have amended the access control to accept this address too. I assume some sort of automated process? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (-2.9°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: heroes+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: heroes+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[heroes] Mailing list server update
by Per Jessen 16 Jan '17

16 Jan '17

FYI, a minor updates wrt the mailing list server (baloo): a) outbound TLS: yesterday I enabled TLS for outgoing mails from baloo. This was suggested in https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/12304 As we already have TLS on mx2.suse.de for inbound, I saw no reason not to enable it for outbound from baloo. Since 16:45, we have delivered some 57'000 mails with TLS. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (-3.4°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: heroes+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: heroes+owner(a)opensuse.org

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