[pydotorg-www] Repeated outages of python.org

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> Done

Thanks.

> * M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com>:
>> 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.
>>
>> 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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