[H-ADMIN] Sysadmin Team Report - Exec meeting of 2 October 2010

[Greg Black]

*Sysadmin Team Report - Exec meeting of 2 October 2010
*
*Excalibur*

   - Backups: I assume they are still running as intended, as there has
   been no email whining and we know from previous testing that the backups
   do work and that we can do a full restore to a working VM.
   - Percentage of disk space used: 3.8 GB of 12 GB (33%).
   - List of packages that aren't up-to-date created by "sudo apt-get
   update; sudo apt-get --simulate upgrade | sed -n 's/^Inst \(.*\)
   \[.*(.*/\1/p'". Note that some of us believed that automatic upgrades had
   been setup, but that is clearly wrong. I suggest that we don't upgrade any
   of these until we find out why they still need to be done, and that we
   discuss this at a Sysadmin meeting after the Exec meeting.
      - apache2-mpm-prefork
      - apache2.2-common
      - apache2
      - login
      - mailman
      - mysql-common
      - request-tracker3.6
      - rt3.6-clients
      - rt3.6-apache2
      - rt3.6-db-mysql
      - libmysqlclient15off
      - mysql-client-5.0
      - mysql-server-5.0
      - bind9
      - bind9utils
      - python-moinmoin
   - Any major configuration changes since the last exec meeting: none that
   I am aware of.
   - Changes to schedule of people with access to the box: none that I am
   aware of.
   - Currently open tickets: There are 10 open tickets (see:
   http://trac.humbug.org.au/report/1 for details). I want to discuss these
   at a Sysadmin meeting after the Exec meeting so that we can decide how to
   handle them. As far as I can tell, none of them represents a threat to the
   system.
   - Membership Database: I know people have been working on this, but I
   don't know where they are at. I hope they will be present to report on it.

I hope that gmail hasn't made this a nasty mess of badly-formatted junk, but
will have to send it and wait for the complaints if people can't read it. If
that's so, please let me know and I'll try to do it another way. (But I hope
it will just be OK.)

Greg
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