DC-Users September 2009

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A few activities between summer sunny nap and winter hibernation
by DuckCorp Admin Team 13 Sep '09

13 Sep '09

Coin, === Orfeo Migration === Everything went fine. IPv6 connectivity was restored a few hours later. Thanks Hivane for handling this move quite transparently. More planification would be better though ;-). === Arch Support is Gone === As planned, Tla/Arch support was removed on Toushirou. Users which had not converted their projetcs to another VCS can find a backup of their data in a 'arch-devel-archives.tgz' archive in their home directory. It was a nice tool... === FTP Security === As one user reported, ftp.duckcorp.org is not very secure, as you authenticate on an unsecured connection when you need to upload new content. So, we decided to improve the situation. From now on, you should be using ftps.duckcorp.org instead. This virtual host enforce using TLS before authenticating. Around october, 15th ftp.duckcorp.org will connect you to the public part of the FTP data, and you won't be able to do any modification using this vhost. Nevertheless, authenticating using TLS would probably be retained, in order to leverage a few limitations, like FXP allowance. In the meantime, the physical layout in the /ftp directory will be changed to allow more vhosts in the future. === DB Migration === As users do not use PostgreSQL, migration to 8.4 was done recently. Do not hesitate asking for an account if you need. MySQL is widely used, and is being upgraded to a new major version soon, around november, 15th. So, we will take care of any wide needed actions, like running REPAIR on all tables (needed for FULLTEXT indexes and probably a few other things), but we need YOU to check for incompatible changes in the software you use. System-wide softwares, like Mediawiki and Gallery2, will be handled by our staff, so you don't need to care about. For more information, please look at: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/upgrading-from-previous-series.html You can contact us in order to provide a SQL script to run at migration time if needed. === Toushirou Kernel upgrade === Toushirou is being used for shells/screens and IRC proxy (bip), so it is not easy to reboot it without you noticing, but sometimes, because of so much security problems, it is needed. We plan to reboot it soo, probably September, 19th, around midday. === IRC Plan === The test server is working pretty well. We plan to upgrade it to a testing version very near the final release, test it a bit (mostly SSL links, with another test server), and replace production softwares before the end of the year. === LDAP Work === Important changes were done, and further migrations should be less intrusive.. That's all for now. Don't forget help and donations are still warmly welcome.. -- Marc Dequènes (Duck)

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Short partial downtime happening _Today_
by DuckCorp Admin Team 12 Sep '09

12 Sep '09

Coin, Due to complex sponsoring needs, we needs to move Orfeo to a new location _today_. Unfortunately, it could not be planned better, and the machine is being moved in an hour or two. Our sponsor Hivane would take care of almost everything transparently. We'll stop the machine at the last moment and take care of checking network connectivity and services as soon as online again. Affected services would mostly be Mail related (several others having redondancy, like IRC, DNS, MX2, or Jabber/XMPP). Sorry for the inconvenience. Regards. -- Marc Dequènes (Duck)

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