[pydotorg-www] Repeated outages of python.org

[Thomas Wouters]

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.)

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