[pydotorg-www] Repeated outages of python.org
M.-A. Lemburg
mal at egenix.com
Mon Jul 25 10:56:58 CEST 2011
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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