infrastructure March 2007

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Testers needed: mirrormanager
by Matt Domsch 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

For a while now I've been working on a webapp/database called mirrormanager to track the status of all the various mirror systems that you graciously administer. Right now, all the tracking (IP addresses for the ACLs, yum mirror lists, static web pages listing the mirrors by country, etc) are all manual - someone (lately, me), has to edit a bunch of files for each change (add, remove, move a mirror). So, I got tired and wrote a program to do that for me. At this point, I'm looking for volunteers to try out the site, enter their data, and let me know if something causes a python backtrace and what you did to get there. My goal is to shake enough bugs out that it can be used *LIVE* for the Fedora 7 launch. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager You need to have a Fedora Account System account. You don't need to sign the Contributor License Agreement, but you will have to accept the Export Compliance statement listed there when you create a new Site. There will be an app that crawls your web site (either http or ftp), at least once a day, to discover what content you're actually carrying. It uses HTTP HEAD or FTP DIR commands and keep-alives, so it should be fast and not a huge load. Source Code to mirrormanager is under the MIT/X11 license, and is posted here: https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/mirrormanager The "Grand Idea" doc is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/MirrorManagement Some things you can do: Create a new Site. The Site is the administrative unit. You can add admins for your Site, which additional Fedora Account System usernames, then they can do things with your Site's data. Create Hosts for your Site. Hosts are the individual systems that you use to serve data. If you're doing a round robin DNS, only list one Host. But you can have many hosts. Hosts can have their own lists of IP ACLs, local netblocks (so we can eventually try to route your local traffic to you automagically), a list of allowed countries (some places can only serve traffic to a limited number of countries), and the like. Create Categories (Fedora Core, Fedora Extras, ...) for your Host. More categories will exist as the content becomes available in the masters - e.g. Fedora EPEL and Fedora Releases (for F7). Create URLs (http, ftp, rsync) for your Categories. You can list URLs which are "Private", meaning they're for use by other mirrors only. In this way we can start to create a tiering system, but with non-publicly-published URLs. Create SiteToSites. This lets other Sites' admins see the Private URLs. See the public mirror list. See the rsync ACL list. The goal is to replace most of ftp(a)redhat.com with a script that reads this list once a day. :-) Wanna help? ==> fedora-infrastructure-list(a)redhat.com. With your help, this should smooth out the mirror load, and make release day go very easily. Thanks, Matt Fedora Mirror Wrangler -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com

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cvsl10n CVSROOT
by Karsten Wade 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

For Paul, Dimitris, and others ... Mike and I were discussing CVS structure for cvsl10n. These are configuration choices for e.g. CVSROOT, and etc. Goals: * R/W for the po/ directory in documentation modules (/cvs/docs/.../po) * Same for po/ under any merged packages (< Extras), although for the most part those are projects that should have translation upstream * Pull in sample content from elvis.rh.c:/usr/local/CVS - part of planning to be able to copy all content and switch Here is a *test* import of the existing L10N CVS -- note that this content may get removed at any time, and people in the cvsl10n have write access to it: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/?root=l10n - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, RHCE, 108 Editor ^ Fedora Documentation Project Sr. Developer Relations Mgr. | fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject quaid.108.redhat.com | gpg key: AD0E0C41 ////////////////////////////////// \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

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New List Member
by Robert Pereira 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

Greetings to all! My name is Robert Pereira, I live at Brazil, on Salvador city. After open the Fedora Weekly News Issue 80, i saw tha announce "Fedora Infrastructure needs your help!" and then i decided get involved with the Infrastructure team. I work as Linux system administrator since 2001 focused on Red Hat and Fedora Core distributions to deploy Linux based network infrastructure solutions as mail, web, file, print and ftp services. Also virtualization, firewalls and migration to Linux and technical support. My first contribution with Fedora Project was the translation of some modules of the Fedora Project and translation of the Fedoras Core 4 Installation Guide to Brazilian Portuguese. Beyond of my sysadmin duties, I teach Linux in some educational institutions of the my city. I wish contribute as i can to sucess and growth of this project. My regards, Robert Pereira

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buildsys:/etc/cron.daily/sync-committers.sh
by Mike McGrath 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Can I move this to be hourly? We get people that are confused every so often. Is there a reason its set to only once a day? -Mike

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puppet and our test boxes
by Mike McGrath 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

I'm going to have all of our publictest and test boxes use puppet with the 'global' template. This will keep them in sync with FAS, SNMP, syslog, all that good stuff. Any objections? -Mike

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Primary DNS server change
by Mike McGrath 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

As part of creating people.fedoraproject.org I'm moving bind off of fpserv on to the torrent box just because of the nature of security on those two boxes. If you need to make a DNS change over the next week or so let me know so we can coordinate which one it be on. Jesse, the new primary IP will be 152.3.220.165 Once we've verified the install I'll send the request to iron mountain and send a follow up email to let everyone know when its complete. -Mike

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DHCP and our hosts
by Mike McGrath 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

At present our physical hosts use DHCP and our Xen guests do not. I'd like to do one or the other. The only issue we have going completely DHCP is that hosts like the proxy boxes require some aliased interfaces[1] which isn't really a problem but it's a minor inconvenience if someone is looking through the dhcpd.conf file for free IP's. Option 1: Completely Static IP's, everywhere. (Except for some network devices?) Option 2: Completely DHCP IP's, except for aliases or devices unable to use DHCP Option 3: Leave it as it is Note: DHCP addresses are statically mapped, its not like bastion's IP address will change regularly. Honestly I don't care but I'd vote for Option 2 because it requires the least amount of work / risk right now Though if someone has a compelling reason for Option 1 or 3, let me know. -Mike [1] AFAIK DHCP cannot be done on aliased interfaces because it shares a MAC with the physical interface.

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intro. and help offer
by Jerry Amundson 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Hey. I could provide help in some of the areas mentioned... Log management, Nagios / Cacti monitoring xen architecture new accounts system ticket handling bacula testing (needs to get into extras) migrating fedora.rh.c off the old site and onto fedoraproject.org [I work in these areas, or similar, daily...] The amount of time is another matter, but if it's important I'll make it a priority... (note: the Schedule doesn't give the newcomer much sense of urgency... maybe it just needs updating ? :-) Also, I have hardware available if needed. An x86_64 server at home, potentially others at my office... jerry -- "Oh joy! Rapture! I've got a brain" -Scarecrow

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hosted.fp.o outage
by Jesse Keating 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

I'm upgrading Trac for a security issue. Should result in only a minor blip as I restart httpd, could turn into a longer outage if I have to rollback the package. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora

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RE: Testers needed: mirrormanager
by Toivo Voll 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

One more snafu. On https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ the site (University of South Florida) shows up correctly, but the host under that site (should be ftp.usf.edu) is shown as teufli or mirror.atrpms.net, and I cannot see the correct host. When I click on the displayed (wrong) site name I am told I am not an admin for it. If I click on the site instead, occasionally the right host is displayed, and I can proceed to edit it. -- Toivo Voll Data Network Management Academic Computing University of South Florida

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