On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Ely Levy wrote:
> come on give me a break, > when I wanted to help and looked for someone to talk to about it no one > was around, I'm sure there are a lot of people of wanted to help and > just couldn't find who to ask about what need to be done. ok, i think i'll assign to you the job of maintaining the mirrors. for starters, the 'run-rsync' script has soemhow vanished about 3 weeks ago, and need to be written from scratch. Ilya has kindly written a description of what this script needs to do - i'll forward it to anyone vulanteering - knowledge of shell scripts - a MUST. also ability to read existing scripts, man rsync, and be extra carefull - it took me over a month to bring the mirror back to life, and i'd virtually disect anyone woh accidentally erases it due to bugs in the script - so one need to be extra carefull about what they are doing. do you vulanteer? :P~~ there is also a need to install security updates from time to time - i'm not talking about zope (requires some previous experience with handling zope, and right now, looks like only chen has that) or mysql (shlomi configured it in a manner too peculear for me to follow). ofcourse, if you break any of these services, they can be fixed remotely, so its not a biggy (and people are already used to our poor level or service anyway) - but if, for example, one updates sshd, they should be extra carefull. same would go for kernel upgrades (the last one broke the software raid, and thus requierd reformatting the mirror disks...), library upgrades, etc. any vulanteer for this task? > I offered tons of times to help with the web page no one answered i have no idea how the work site even works. i need others' help when i wish to update any web pages. when i send announcements, i've no idea how to moderate them - they magically appear after a day (or a week) - i think this has something to do with alex shnitman, but i won't bet on that. > I offered to help with the mirror and only when alex or ilya were around > we somehow synced between hujics and iglu. syncing with huji's mirror is low on my priorities list. do you wish to take over the mirror handling? it requiers checking the ammount of free disk space from time to time, and adidng new sections to the 'exclude' files, when the soup spills.. not to mention writing this rsync-run script, cause until then, there are no mirror updates, except for those i'll do manually (and this does not include updating debian mirror - it was last updated on 30-nov-2001, and i don't inetnd to manualy sync it). so, here's your big chance. are you gonna do it? > stop saying how egoistic people are and say what is missing and what need > to be done. and hw many times did people ask that, did get answers and then vanished into limbo? i'll help you, provided that you define exactly what you intend to do, and then follow through. and please don't vulanteer unless you are sure you will be able to be somewhat commited (i.e. 2-3 hours a week normally, more when there aer problems). > we get no info / feedback on whats happening over there who is > doing what and alike. you are the only one who even bothered to report > about how the mirror of iglu is doing. cause people spend enough time doing their thing, that reporting about the status doesn't occur to them as so obvious, as it does to you (or sometimes, even to me - and i always forget to notify when i need to bring the system down). > how about sending to the list the list of jobs and who is doing them > and what need help in being done? lets find one eprson to handle the mirrors. Ilya has done a good job with that, until he was drafted. i took over cause it was this, or having no mirrors however, since i'm also the one that has to run to the server room every time there is a problem, i'm not intending to handle both things. -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
