:: 07-Sep-2003 11:02 GMT (Sunday) ::
I’m in the process of restoring an older copy of the stats database; I’m not
sure how long it will take, though.
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2003-09-07
decibel [07-Sep-2003 @ 11:02]
decibel [07-Sep-2003 @ 02:50]
:: 07-Sep-2003 02:50 GMT (Sunday) ::
I’m restoring a backup of the stats database; stats will be un-available until
this is done. Sorry for the inconvenience.
2003-09-06
decibel [06-Sep-2003 @ 22:18]
:: 06-Sep-2003 22:18 GMT (Saturday) ::
It looks like the fix I tried to correct for case-sensitive emails didn’t work.
Rather than trying to fix my fix, I’m going to restore from an early backup and
roll stats forward from there. At this point I think we’ve worked out all the
bugs, so rolling forward should go much faster than it was before; I hope to be
caught up again by Tuesday.
bovine [06-Sep-2003 @ 17:00]
:: 06-Sep-2003 17:00 GMT (Saturday) ::
There is a new Solaris-x86 client on the pre-release download page.
bovine [06-Sep-2003 @ 16:51]
:: 06-Sep-2003 16:51 GMT (Saturday) ::
Just a few notes about ongoing maintenance:
– http://cvs.distributed.net/ has been upgraded to use ViewCVS instead
of CVSWeb. This fixes a number of bugs (such as annotate not
working) and offers new functionality, such as cvsgraph imaging.
– Last week the fetch@ and flush@ email block services were updated to
filter their inputs through SpamAssassin and make use of some
procmail filters to allow a bulk of the spam/worm messages to be
ignored. This should hopefully reduce the amount of emails that
random people have been seeing due to forged “From” headers.
– Last week, unfortunately also due to increased spam/worm mails, the
help@ address was updated to no longer automatically pass messages
through to the help desk mailbox. Upon mailing that address, you
will receive a reply that includes some common answers, and a
description of where you should send your message if you have a
question that is still not answered.
2003-09-05
thejet [05-Sep-2003 @ 15:54]
:: 05-Sep-2003 15:54 GMT (Friday) ::
Welcome to my first .plan entry!
We’ve been hammering away at the stats PostgreSQL conversion
and part of that conversion has lead to the production of some
XML-based data export functions. We’ve placed these files out
on the stats server on an experimental basis, sort of a public
RFC on the schema being used. Please feel free to comment on
the structure and make suggestions here:
The new pages can be found here:
http://stats.distributed.net/team/tmsummary_xml.php?project_id=25&team=1
http://stats.distributed.net/team/tmember_xml.php?project_id=25&team=1
We look forward to your comments!
decibel [05-Sep-2003 @ 14:24]
:: 05-Sep-2003 14:24 GMT (Friday) ::
We just realized that participant emails aren’t being checked properly before
being added to the database; specifically, emails are being checked in a
case-sensitive manner.
I’m working on fixing the problem right now, but I’ve taken the stats-runs
off-line until I can get everything straightened out. Hopefully shouldn’t
affect tonight’s statsrun.
2003-09-03
decibel [03-Sep-2003 @ 11:18]
:: 03-Sep-2003 11:18 GMT (Wednesday) ::
I’m trying to fix the kernel shared memory parameters so we can run more
PostgreSQL processes. Stats should be back in 10 minutes or so.
2003-09-02
decibel [02-Sep-2003 @ 17:02]
:: 02-Sep-2003 17:02 GMT (Tuesday) ::
Good news; I’ve found and corrected the problem with the apache processes
consuming several hundred meg, which means not only can I bump the timeout
setting back up, but that you’re much less likely to run into database
connection errors (which are still masquerading as other errors).
decibel [02-Sep-2003 @ 13:58]
:: 02-Sep-2003 13:58 GMT (Tuesday) ::
I’m doing some quick maintenance which means some pages won’t be working for
the time being. Should hopefully take only 10 minutes or so.