Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Having trouble pushing

2025-01-08 Thread Bob Proulx
arn...@skeeve.com wrote: > Things are better at the moment (it's ~ 2:30 AM east coast time). > But... Although an https clone no longer pegs my CPU at 100%, it still sucks: > > $ time git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/gawk.git > Cloning into 'gawk'... > Fetching objects: 61396, done. > > rea

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Certificate for git.savannah.gnu.org expired

2025-01-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Mike Ford wrote: > The certificate for git.savannah.gnu.org expired 20 days ago as of today. Yes. Thank you for that report. What happened is that I forgot to sync the new certificates when I rolled the git service from one system to the other system. Drat! Usually these are already in sync bu

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] 502 bad gateway (from nginx) when https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/

2025-01-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Juha Pohjalainen wrote: > noticed that https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/ gives 502 error when > navigated from page https://git.savannah.gnu.org/ Our git server is often under attack by abusive agents. The whole entire world is now scraping every possible URL for AI training, or at least seeming

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Support for Git-backed web pages on Savannah?

2024-10-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Ian Kelling wrote: > Ineiev writes: > > Yes; our Git server already can't cope with its current load, > > https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?110712 > > Afaik, that isn't true. I've heard Bob say that he keeps track of load > related problems and they are relatively rare. That bug report you link > t

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] outages

2024-10-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > Do you have statistics on how much down time there has been over the > course of this and previous year? I started a manual tracking of downtime that I have observed. It's a reaction to there being a significant amount this past season. Because there has been. But let's

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Broken link in guix binary install

2024-10-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Hello Steven, Steven Holden wrote: > Imagine my dismay on making a software request directing the team to look to > the page > Binary Installation (GNU Guix Reference > Manual) > Where the binary install script is accessed by wg

[Savannah-hackers-public] git server upgrade upgraded again

2024-10-02 Thread Bob Proulx
on all of our servers so not a reason to back away from this upgrade. The cgit debugging continues! Bob - Forwarded message from Bob Proulx - From: Bob Proulx To: savannah-us...@gnu.org Cc: Simon Josefsson Mail-Followup-To: savannah-us...@gnu.org, Simon Josefsson Subject: git server

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] nongnu.git returned status 502

2024-10-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Hi Diskette Guy, > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emacs/nongnu.git/ using git, with this > > following error message: fatal: unable to access > > 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emacs/nongnu.git/': The requested URL > > returned error: 502 There was a big deal problem in the datacenter. We

[Savannah-hackers-public] Running Savannah Locally

2024-09-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Ineiev, I need your help. It used to be that one could create a local sandbox for Savannah PHP web UI code and then use it to develop upon. That previous method no longer works. But the need to do this still exists. Could you instruct on how to set up a local development sandbox for the Savann

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] git server upgraded

2024-09-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Ineiev wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > The problem with libnss-extrausers is that it works from files. It > > does not use the database. It requires the database to be dumped at > > some periodic frequency into files in order for those files to be > > updated from the

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] git server upgraded

2024-09-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > Simon Josefsson wrote: > > Thanks for the upgrade! If anyone except me was greeted by the > > following strange error after the upgrade: > > > > jas@kaka:~/src/gnulib$ git pull > > sign_and_send_pubkey: signing failed for ED25519 "cardn

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] git server upgraded

2024-09-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Simon Josefsson wrote: > Thanks for the upgrade! If anyone except me was greeted by the > following strange error after the upgrade: > > jas@kaka:~/src/gnulib$ git pull > sign_and_send_pubkey: signing failed for ED25519 "cardno:FFFE42315277" from > agent: agent refused operation > j...@git.sv.gnu

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] git server upgraded

2024-09-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > TL;DR: git server upgraded, please report any problems Oh Drat! Of course python2 has been deprecated in the newer OS versions and is no longer installed by default. It turns out that many of the git hooks used are python2 scripts and either do not work with pyth

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] git server upgraded

2024-09-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Ineiev wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Among the obstacles the MariaDB API used to access the SQL database > > changed program interfaces which broke building the libnss-mysql > > library used to bridge those two things. > ... > > Changes to the GNU autotools require

[Savannah-hackers-public] git server upgraded

2024-09-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Savannah Hackers, I sent this to savannah-users for user consumption and am forwarding it to savannah-hackers-public for hacker consumption. Bob - Forwarded message from Bob Proulx - From: Bob Proulx To: savannah-us...@gnu.org Mail-Followup-To: savannah-us...@gnu.org Subject: git

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] savannah's cgit seems to be broken or (worse) attacked

2024-09-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Askar Safin wrote: > (cc me when answering) > Hi. I just opened savannah's cgit (i. e. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/ ). > But links on this page are very strange. I wasn't able to capture it doing this at the time. But it is doing it off and on and off and on all day today making it persiste

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] savannah's cgit seems to be broken or (worse) attacked

2024-09-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Askar Safin wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Hello Askar, > > I cannot reproduce this anymore. > > I noticed strange links 5 Sep 19:25 UTC at > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/ . In Chromium 121.0.6167.160 with > lots of extensions installed (but most of them are au

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] savannah's cgit seems to be broken or (worse) attacked

2024-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
> Askar Safin wrote: > > (cc me when answering) > > > Hi. I just opened savannah's cgit (i. e. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/ > > ). > > But links on this page are very strange. For example, here > > are the link titled "elisp-es.git": I neglected to thank you for making the report of this st

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] savannah's cgit seems to be broken or (worse) attacked

2024-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Hello Askar, Askar Safin wrote: > (cc me when answering) > Hi. I just opened savannah's cgit (i. e. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/ ). > But links on this page are very strange. For example, here > are the link titled "elisp-es.git": > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/akfquiz.git/plain/srcb

[Savannah-hackers-public] SQL Database Relocated to internal1

2024-08-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Savannah Hackers, The current database since mid July has been running on internal2 after it was moved there. That made internal1 available for upgrade. The internal1 system was upgraded to the current Trisquel 11. All is well there. The internal1 configuration is somewhat more desirable for a

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Bob's Status Update

2024-08-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Jing Luo wrote: > carl hansen wrote: > > fencepost. Trisquel 9 > > > > suggest upgrade to 11 > > LOL, fencepost is FSF sysadmin territory IIRC, or/and we can wait for > another 5 months to upgrade to trisquel 12. I dont have an account on > fencepost Right. We need to create a big poster with a V

[Savannah-hackers-public] Bob's Status Update

2024-08-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Savannah Hackers, This is of those status updates to say how I have been spending my summer. But I will save you from too much of it. I have been traveling here and there for bicycle tours. I have been crewing pro rallies. But the summer is comming to an end now and all of those large trips ar

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] SQL Database Upgrade Plan

2024-07-14 Thread Bob Proulx
The database migration has been completed. internal2 is now carrying the full work load. The database on internal1 has been turned off and disabled to prevent accidentally creating a "split-brain" database. All database table engines were migrated from MyIASM to InnnoDB. All charsets were migrat

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] SQL Database Upgrade Plan

2024-07-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Ineiev wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I would like to upgrade the Savannah SQL database. ... > > Sounds great. I will proceed with the plan then. :-) Bob

[Savannah-hackers-public] SQL Database Upgrade Plan

2024-07-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Ineiev, I would like to upgrade the Savannah SQL database. Currently due to the long history and legacy many of the database tables are of of engine type MyISAM and of various legacy charset types. That reflects the current defaults when those tables were created. If we were doing things today

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Working through ssh upgrade throughout

2024-07-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Jing Luo wrote: > Bob, while you are at it, I think you might also want to check if sendmail > on vcs systemd & frontend is vulnerable to this (below). sendmail (actually > apt-listchanges??) sent an email to tell me that sendmail got a security > update (which I think is ironic). None of the Sava

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Working through ssh upgrade throughout

2024-07-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > Happy Monday Savannah! > > FYI: I am working through the ssh upgrades on the servers in order to > mitigate the current news. > > regreSSHion: RCE in OpenSSH's server, on glibc-based Linux systems > CVE-2024-6387 > https://www.qualys

[Savannah-hackers-public] Working through ssh upgrade throughout

2024-07-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Happy Monday Savannah! FYI: I am working through the ssh upgrades on the servers in order to mitigate the current news. regreSSHion: RCE in OpenSSH's server, on glibc-based Linux systems CVE-2024-6387 https://www.qualys.com/2024/07/01/cve-2024-6387/regresshion.txt Bob

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] [E] Re: Out of memory issues on Savannah?

2024-05-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Hi Jason, Jason Kenny wrote: > We have been looking at trying to configure libidn to use a prebuild.. We > had some issues, but not enough time to figure out what failed yet. I will > add that our builds fail on the clone with a -j1 logic or -j 12 ( ie N ) > equally. > As far as your questions, I

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Out of memory issues on Savannah?

2024-05-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Hi Simon, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Not really a solution to the savannah malloc failures (I've been seeing > them too when pulling gnulib 10x in parallel from savannah during > continous integration pipeline jobs) but a note that I am (as > libidn/libidn2 maintainer) considering to not use a gnuli

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Out of memory issues on Savannah?

2024-05-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Hello Phong, Phong X. Nguyen wrote: > We pull down libidn and libidn2, both of which rely on gnulib and we have > with some increasing frequency seen remote out of memory errors. I saw from > the prior issues other people have had that we should contact this mailing > list if we need some assistan

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] SubversionException: 13 - Can't open file '/srv/svn/gnueval/db/fs-type': Permission denied

2024-02-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Ineiev wrote: > I'm not sure why. the permissions will prevent anonymous access. > that's what Savannah has always done with CVS directories of private > groups. This is in a PUBLIC DIRECTORY. Everything has always assumed that all of those files are publically accessible files. Trying to block

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Memo: HTTP/2 support for Savannah (and probably *.gnu.org) and the blockers

2024-02-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Jing Luo wrote: > Now that it's almost 2024, HTTP/2 is support by apache2 is mature, it's > probably time for savannah and *.gnu.org to support HTTP/2. It brings better > performance and requires TLS 1.3, but I'll leave this discussion/decision to > FSF admins. HTTP/2 brings more performance but a

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] SubversionException: 13 - Can't open file '/srv/svn/gnueval/db/fs-type': Permission denied

2024-02-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Ineiev wrote: > I have a hypothesis. I may have changed the permissions when > I modified sv_groups to create repositories of private groups > with less permissive access in November. gnueval was the only > private group using Subversion, so no other repositories were > affected. I see that nothi

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] [PATCH] configure.ac: add detection of symver gcc attribute

2024-02-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Hello Giulio, You have sent a patch for some project's configure.ac to the Savannah Free Software Forge administration team. Who did you actually mean to send this to? Not us certainly! :-) I can't guess who you intended this for. I can only say that you have reached a wrong number. Good luck

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Welcome Jing Luo!

2024-02-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Yes! Welcome to the group Jing! Many hands make light work. :-) Bob Jing Luo wrote: > On 2024-02-16 16:10, Corwin Brust wrote: > > Please join me welcoming Jing Luo to the Savannah Hackers. > > > > You may already know Jing from his work helping investigate problems > > and potential improveme

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] git down

2024-01-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > Po Lu wrote: > > I've started experiencing this error: > > > > + git pull > > fatal: read error: Connection reset by peer > > > > pulling from git.sv.gnu.org; all repositories are also inaccessible over > > the cgit interface

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] git down

2024-01-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Po Lu via Discussions among Savannah Hackers, open subscription wrote: > I've started experiencing this error: > > + git pull > fatal: read error: Connection reset by peer > > pulling from git.sv.gnu.org; all repositories are also inaccessible over > the cgit interface, and I suppose Gitweb as well

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] "task #14222: Submission of Ad Reaper"

2024-01-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Hello Paul, It's great to see you helping out with things! Paul Walker wrote: > https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?14222 - I realise I'm rather late > to the party, but - it seems to hit all the points mentioned in > https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/HowToGetYourProjectApprovedQuickly/ > > Did

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] SubversionException: 13 - Can't open file '/srv/svn/gnueval/db/fs-type': Permission denied

2024-01-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Karl Berry wrote: > I don't have my old checkout any more, but wouldn't we use, e.g., > svn+ssh://k...@svn.savannah.gnu.org/gnueval > to access? > (As shown on https://savannah.gnu.org/svn/?group=gnueval) > > Sorry if that's what you're already saying ... Yes. Ignoring the mystery of how this c

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] SubversionException: 13 - Can't open file '/srv/svn/gnueval/db/fs-type': Permission denied

2024-01-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Karl Berry wrote: >drwxrws--- 6 root gnueval 253 Nov 9 11:34 /srv/svn/gnueval/db > > FWIW, I have a vague recollection from my time as gnueval (~15-20 years > ago) that, as a super special case, we explicitly made the repository > private because it contained possibly-nonfree and/or pr

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] SubversionException: 13 - Can't open file '/srv/svn/gnueval/db/fs-type': Permission denied

2024-01-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Karl Berry wrote: >drwxrws--- 6 root gnueval 253 Nov 9 11:34 /srv/svn/gnueval/db > > FWIW, I have a vague recollection from my time as gnueval (~15-20 years > ago) that, as a super special case, we explicitly made the repository > private because it contained possibly-nonfree and/or pr

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] SubversionException: 13 - Can't open file '/srv/svn/gnueval/db/fs-type': Permission denied

2024-01-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Hello Alfred, Thank you for this report. I don't know why but the permissions on that one file were incorrect. drwxrws--- 6 root gnueval 253 Nov 9 11:34 /srv/svn/gnueval/db I don't know how that directory's permission could have been modified to this result. I always assume that if this h

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Initial changes for adding the Git homepage source code web browsing option.

2024-01-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Hi Ayushman, Ayushman Tripathi wrote: > Hello! I'm currently working towards implementing the option for the Git > webpage repository. > > This patch specifically covers the initial frontend changes. Thank you for submitting this patch suggestion for review. As I look at this so far I don't see

[Savannah-hackers-public] [task #15599] Add bounce processing to Savannah

2023-12-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Update of task #15599 (project administration): Status: Need Info => Done Assigned to: ineiev => rwp Open/Closed:Open => Closed __

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Welcome Svetlana!

2023-11-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Corwin Brust wrote: > I'm pleased to announce Svetlana (irc: gry) has joined the Savannah > Hackers. You may have already noticed her helping reviewing > submissions and participating in other discussions, and agree with me > this is simply due recognition of her contributions with --in the fine >

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] frontend2 /usr/bin/python switched from python2 to python3

2023-08-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Ineiev wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > The subject almost says it all. Andrew requested /usr/bin/python be > > python3 on frontend1 for FSF scripts. I switched it over. I have no > > idea if this will have an effect on any of the python scripts on the > > machine alr

[Savannah-hackers-public] frontend2 /usr/bin/python switched from python2 to python3

2023-08-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Savannah Hackers, The subject almost says it all. Andrew requested /usr/bin/python be python3 on frontend1 for FSF scripts. I switched it over. I have no idea if this will have an effect on any of the python scripts on the machine already. Will it? I am not a python person so I don't know. D

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Problem with list bug-gnu-emacs

2023-08-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Hi Jeremy and Everyone, Jeremy Bryant wrote: > Hi Savannah hackers, > > I wish to stay subscribed to bug-gnu-em...@gnu.org however the server > periodically unsubscribes me due to 'excessive bounces'. Can you > investigate what the cause might be? > > I have no such problems with emacs-devel itse

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Moving some Git repositories to Savannah

2023-07-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > I've now manually set expiry using 'gpg --edit-keys' and re-uploaded my > public key. Thank you for doing this. And let me encourage everyone to have a GPG key uploaded to Savannah. It's a strong failsafe mechanism for account recovery. There are always incidents where

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah VM Maintenance Happening

2023-07-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > Hello Savannah Hackers, All of the maintenance planned for today has been completed with a little help from Ian when I got snagged. Whew! All of the systems have been rebooted today. And all are rebooting okay. The systems hosted on the community server were reconfigu

[Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah VM Maintenance Happening

2023-07-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Hello Savannah Hackers, Ineiev, This might affect you if things get snarled up! I'll try to push these through with the least amount of downtime. First let me apologize for being distracted with other things and having little time recently for Savannah issues. I just returned from a week of bei

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] [Savannah-cvs] [610] update: admins can edit descriptions

2023-05-12 Thread Bob Proulx
ine...@gnu.org wrote: > - Unfortunately nothing has been implemented to allow the group > - administrator to do this from the web interface. Fortunately this > - doesn't need to change very often. Please submit a > - [support > request](https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?func=additem&group=ad

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Please disallow www-commits in robots.txt

2023-05-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Thérèse Godefroy wrote: > I understand it wouldn't be practical to make this list private, but it > could at least be off-limits for crawlers. I am not a member of the www team so I just don't know the answer to this question but why not? If the www team doesn't need the public web archive then w

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Empty Git repository on

2023-05-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Ineiev wrote: > On Fri, May 05, 2023 at 04:40:01PM +, Ineiev wrote: > > On Fri, May 05, 2023 at 02:28:30PM +0200, Alex Baranowski via Discussions > > among Savannah Hackers, open subscription wrote: > > > > > > I tried to clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/which.git and set it up > > > as

[Savannah-hackers-public] cgit syntax highlight request

2023-05-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Thanks to everyone who added comments to this topic. It's been a week for people to think about things and make comments. (And a week for me to be completely consumed by my own tasks.) The unscientific survey does lean toward adding color syntax highlighting. Therefore I have enabled it on the

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] new upcoming ns1.gnu.org server

2023-05-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrew Engelbrecht wrote: > If you could please add the IP address of `ns1-new.gnu.org` to the list > of servers that receive transfers from your zones, that would be great. Done. You can verify that a zone transfer to ns1-new occurred around 20:57:01 in the logs and all of the Savannah zones wer

[Savannah-hackers-public] cgit syntax highlight request

2023-04-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Savannah Users, A user on IRC (daviid) has requested that cgit on Savannah be modified to perform syntax highlighting by default on the various source page display pages. I did some research into this topic of cgit syntax highlighting. It seems there are two popular ways to enable syntax highlig

[Savannah-hackers-public] soc-projects commit hook problems

2023-02-28 Thread Bob Proulx
This message is two weeks overdue. It's hard to keep up sometimes. On February 8th Jose had problems with commit to the www pages and reported this through IRC. They were not updating. I investigated, determined the hook was not set correctly, made a local edit hack to set it from non-gnu to gn

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah mgt upgrades

2023-01-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Ineiev wrote: > What about files like administration/mirrors-contacts.txt? so far, > they are on mgt0; I know nothing about that file. Is it in version control somewhere? I haven't attacked the download server, which hosts the release mirror upstream, really at all yet. > also, I miss the mysql

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] (no subject)

2023-01-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Alex Naumov wrote: > > Same here. > > There are no errors or something. Just staying not signed in. > > The problem was in the Firefox version. It seems the old versions (for > example, 96.0.2) are not supported anymore. > With Firefox 108.0.1 it works well. Strange. As far as I know there hasn't

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] (no subject)

2023-01-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Anita Evans wrote: > hello i cant sign in my accout Everything appears to be working as far as I can see. I can log in using either Firefox or Chromium. Another user just reported the same problem but with the solution for them was that their Firefox needed to be upgraded. I suggest verifying

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah frontend2 upgrades

2022-12-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Hi Ineiev, Ineiev wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I did a very quick test and the Savannah web UI loads and runs. > > Thanks to Ineiev for the PHP updates to enable this on the newer PHP! > > I'm afraid, the code isn't quite ready yet for PHP 8.1: the notices > ne

[Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah mgt upgrades

2022-12-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Savannah Hackers, Status Update We have been furnished with a new system installed with the latest and greatest Trisquel 11 for use as the new management node. The old system is mgt0 and the new system coming online is mgt1. The new mgt management node is online. I have made an initial effort

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Server link publicly accessible.

2022-11-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Abhishek Singh wrote: > I was going through the Teslamotors GitHub repository and I found a link > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/ which is publicly accessible. I can see codes > and many sensitive data over there which I assume was not intended for > publicly accessible. That link is to the GNU Free

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah frontend2 upgrades

2022-10-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Savannah Hackers, > Onward to Trisquel 11! The frontend2 system has been rebooted and is fully upgraded to Trisquel 11 now. This includes the latest PHP, MariaDB, Apache, and the rest. I did a very quick test and the Savannah web UI loads and runs. Thanks to Ineiev for the PHP updates to enable

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah frontend2 upgrades

2022-10-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Savannah Hackers, The frontend2 system has been rebooted and is fully upgraded to Trisquel 10. This is the non-production system sibling to the current production system frontend1 running the web UI. I am planning on immediately proceeding forward by upgrading frontend2 to the upcoming Trisuel 1

[Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah frontend2 upgrades

2022-10-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Savannah Hackers, Since frontend1 is running well as the current production web UI system. The upgrade and switchover there means the other system frontend2 is idle. Time to upgrade it. And to keep upgrading the other system and flipping between them. I upgraded frontend2 to the same Trisquel

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] small suggestion, list descriptions

2022-10-08 Thread Bob Proulx
> [savannah-help-public] ... also among the maintainers. > > In my mind that would normally be savannah-hackers-public (where this > discussion is taking place :). This is an example of where I could not keep them all straight. I saw that savannah-help-public and thought it was savannah-hack

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] small suggestion, list descriptions

2022-10-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Karl Berry wrote: > Good question. In my mind, savannah-users is more for discussion "among" > users Seems perfectly reasonable. And I entertained in my head something similar but failed to articulate it. > and savannah-help-public is more for sending queries "to" the > savannah maintainers. An

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] small suggestion, list descriptions

2022-10-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Ian Kelling wrote: > https://savannah.nongnu.org/mail/?group=administration > > On that page, add a description of what savannah-users is for and what > savannah-help-public is for. They were all here when I started hacking on the system. Other than the name I have no idea about the purpose of th

[Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah Upgrades Today 2022-10-05

2022-10-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Savannah Hackers, This last week I have been working on the systems getting things ready for the next step of upgrades. Today I upgraded the database server from MySQL on Trisquel 8 to MariaDB on Trisuel 9. And the new VM is on a better host to move forward upon. Yay! That went so well, or so

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Git email hook?

2022-09-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Hi Paul, Paul Smith wrote: > > I pushed a change this morning and didn't see any email about it. > > Got the email about 4 hours later; apparently there's some lag in the > system (I just got this email, about 4.5 hours later...) There isn't any intentional mailing list delays. But on this last

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Sending email via fencepost fails

2022-08-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Hello Eli, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Since about half an hour ago, I cannot send email via fencepost port > 587: I get "connection refused". > Logging into fencepost via SSH does work. > > What is the problem with the SMTP service on fencepost? Can this be > fixed, please? > > P.S. And if this is du

[Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah non-gnu download area policy for scp, sftp, rsync

2022-08-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Savannah Hackers, bill-auger helped me debug the upload issue reported in https://savannah.nongnu.org/support/?110690 today. The root cause of this problem is users who have upgraded their system to OpenSSH 9.0 and the upstream OpenSSH at 9.0 has switched the internal protocol of scp from the leg

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah bug->email gateway problems

2022-08-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > It appears that systemd is setting NoNewPrivileges=yes for apache and > if I read the documentation correctly this will definitely break > things in the way we are seeing. I have removed that setting and am > trying things again. That seems to have been the

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah bug->email gateway problems

2022-08-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > I continue to poke at things. It appears that systemd is setting NoNewPrivileges=yes for apache and if I read the documentation correctly this will definitely break things in the way we are seeing. I have removed that setting and am trying things again. Bob

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah bug->email gateway problems

2022-08-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > I have downgraded all of apache and php packages to a version prior to > the latest point release. ... > I'll try to test the outbound mail from the web UI and verify that it > is functioning now or not. Unfortunately that has not resolved the problem.

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah bug->email gateway problems

2022-08-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > The bug-groff list hasn't gotten any updates on applicable Savannah > > tickets for the groff group since sometime on 12 August. > > > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-groff/2022-08/index.html > Y

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah bug->email gateway problems

2022-08-16 Thread Bob Proulx
G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Possibly related to the recent DoS-driven outage... Possibly. The abuse continues currently. And it is hard to identify. Though this seems like this problem would be an independent problem. > The bug-groff list hasn't gotten any updates on applicable Savannah > tick

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Anyone have any news on Savannah?

2022-08-15 Thread Bob Proulx
It looks like the automatic restart is working. But the underlying problem remains. Afer a restart... [Mon Aug 15 17:47:40.409406 2022] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 16147] AH00173: SIGHUP received. Attempting to restart [Mon Aug 15 17:47:41.241212 2022] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 16147] AH

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Anyone have any news on Savannah?

2022-08-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul Smith wrote: > Unfortunately it seems to be down / under attack again this morning :( I see that my attempts at mitigation of the current problem are failing. I am looking into things again now. I'll type this in stream of consciousness as I work the problem and then send it. I may have fi

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Anyone have any news on Savannah?

2022-08-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Hi Paul, Paul Smith wrote: > I haven't been able to reach the Savannah website for most of the day. > Things like the Git service are available but the website is not. Thanks for the report. It appears that some agent was pounding on the web site. There were max processes of apache2 web server

[Savannah-hackers-public] IPv6 problems since recent VM movement

2022-07-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Savannah Hackers, Since Thursday's VM movement there have been problems with IPv6 connectivity. I mapped out the connectivity between systems. Since this hasn't been tracked it's possible that these are not all of the same issue and for example nfs1 may have been this way for a while. Bob

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Install a post-receive hook in the GNU Emacs repository

2022-07-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Gregory Heytings wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I had written that first while loop some years ago for a different > > multiple hook case. I therefore just reached for it and grabbed it for > > this task. > > > > But that doesn't mean that it can't do s

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Install a post-receive hook in the GNU Emacs repository

2022-07-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Gregory Heytings wrote: > That looks good, except for two things: > > (1) the hooks/post-receive-ci.heytings.org must be made executable, and Drat! Sorry. Fixed now. > (2) given that only one oldrev/newrev/refname triplet is passed to the I had written that first while loop some years ago for

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Install a post-receive hook in the GNU Emacs repository

2022-07-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Gregory Heytings wrote: > We're in the process of installing a CI system for GNU Emacs. > > Could you please add the following post-receive hook in the Emacs > repository? Sure. Done. > #!/bin/bash > while read line; do lines="${lines}${line};;"; done > { timeout -s 9 -k 5 10 wget -q -O- --post-

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Add information about downloading Git snapshots

2022-05-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Can this information please be added to the appropriate page of each > project? Honestly this worries me a because I recall that creating those snapshots puts a high load on the server. Right now a few people do it and it isn't so bad. But if it is advertised as a feature

[Savannah-hackers-public] OpenSSH updated on vcs0 and download0

2022-03-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Savannah Hackers, I upgraded vcs0 today to the next newer OpenSSH version. This means that all of the client facing ssh member access systems have all been upgraded past the SHA1 obsolescence point that previously required either upgrading to ed25519 keys or using the following workaround. H

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] scp asks for password on savannah nongnu.org

2022-02-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Joël Krähemann wrote: > `scp` asks for password while connecting, I think this shouldn't happen. Here it is two days later that I am seeing this email to the mailing list. But Joël and I chatted on IRC at the time and I referenced our documentation here. https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] git.savannah.gnu.org is not able to be connected with git protocol

2022-02-20 Thread Bob Proulx
antique refer wrote: > git.savannah.gnu.org is not able to be connected with git protocol. > > # git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnulib.git > Cloning into 'gnulib'... > fatal: read error: Connection reset by peer This works for me. Which leads me to think that it is a firewall in your enviro

[Savannah-hackers-public] Network Outage Today

2022-02-01 Thread Bob Proulx
This morning there was a long network outage which separated the VMs from their root file system holding the OS files. This started at 8:18am US/Eastern time and seemed to mostly conclude about 9:38am US/Eastern time. That's a long time for a system to be without a root file system. The system t

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Update on upgrades

2022-01-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > I have been banging my head against the https/http WebDAV > configuration. That's all Apache using libapache2-mod-svn and seems > like it should be working but I haven't been able to make it happy > yet. I'll keep working on it. The smalle

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] frontend-dev?? Can it be shutdown?

2022-01-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Ineiev wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Can we shutdown frontend-dev and release those resources? I don't > > think we are using it for anything now. Are you using it? > > No; I test changes in frontend code either locally or on current > frontend VM (it has a

[Savannah-hackers-public] frontend-dev?? Can it be shutdown?

2022-01-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Ineiev, Can we shutdown frontend-dev and release those resources? I don't think we are using it for anything now. Are you using it? If not I would like to shut it down and return the VM resources to the pool. Thanks! Bob signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[Savannah-hackers-public] Update on upgrades

2022-01-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Savannah Hackers, Just a very short status update note. I have been focusing on migrating services to the new vcs2 which is the up to date Trisquel 9 image. It includes the newer OpenSSH and avoids the SHA1 deprecation problem with ssh that members committing vcs possibly hit if they have the ne

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] What is the size of the nongnu directory?

2022-01-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Thérèse Godefroy wrote: > The sizes were last updated on Feb. 25, 2017. So the average growth rate of > nongnu is around 2 GB/year. Cool! :-) Bob

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] What is the size of the nongnu directory?

2022-01-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Hello Thérèse, Thérèse Godefroy wrote: > We are trying to update directory sizes in the mirroring guide [0]. > Thanks to Anton McClure and Ian Kelling (RT #1784571), we have current > data for gnu and gnu-alpha. Could you tell us the size of the nongnu > directory? Thanks in advance. The Savannah

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Error en https://savannah.gnu.org/register/

2022-01-07 Thread Bob Proulx
This appears to have been BCC'd to savannah-hackers-public so I make a reply to ensure that follow-ups go here instead of elsewhere. And also to offer a translation. In the Spanish version of https://savannah.gnu.org/register/ In line 309 of the html it says: "My balls include a cop

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Git on Savannah rejects git:// protocol?

2021-12-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I get this: > > ~/test-clone$ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emacs.git > Cloning into 'emacs'... > fatal: unable to connect to git.savannah.gnu.org: > git.savannah.gnu.org[0: 2001:470:142::168]: errno=Connection refused > git.savannah.gnu.org[1: 209.51.18

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