[pydotorg-www] Repeated outages of python.org

[Michael Foord]

On 25/07/2011 09:56, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Could one of the list admins please turn the list archive
> of the pydotorg-www list into a private one ?
>
> I don't think it's a good idea to let our setup information leak
> to the Internnet via search engines.

The *point* of pydotorg-www is that it is a public list. Private 
information should be sent to pydotorg not pydotorg-www.

Michael
>
> Thanks.
>
> Thomas Wouters wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 11:19, Thomas Wouters<thomas at python.org>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 06:37, Antoine Pitrou<solipsis at pitrou.net>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Georg Brandl<georg at ...>  writes:
>>>>> Do we have the resources to monitor it a little more carefully
>>>>> from now on until we found out what the cause is?  Could it be
>>>>> some kind of attack?
>>>> It looks like power-cycling privileges should be given to more people
>>>> (Georg for
>>>> example :-)), to avoid potentially long outages likes this.
>>>>
>>> The problem isn't really 'powercycle privileges', but 'sysadmins looking
>>> after the machines'  (the former should come with the latter.) I haven't
>>> been involved with the setup and maintenance of these machines, and I
>>> shouldn't be the only one who can powercycle them -- everyone with root on
>>> the machine really should be able to, and everyone on
>>> roto-rooters at wooz.org (the non-python.org list of admins) has received
>>> instructions at one point or another (actually,  multiple times now.)
>>>
>>
>> Barry, it seems many people with root access on (at least) dinsdale aren't
>> on roto-rooters. We should probably fix that, and make sure everyone is
>> added to ~psf/.ssh/authorized_keys on xs4all.nl so they can access the
>> remote console/powerswitch as well (unless they have a reason not to want
>> that access, I guess.)
>>
>>
>>
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