Tech:Server admin log

This server admin log is for actions which are not reflected in our Ansible playbook.

January 11

 * 16:34 - addshore - Reports of pull not pulling, upon looking at the logs 1 task is failing. "unable to access 'https://git.wikimedia.org/git/mediawiki/extensions/DPLforum.git/': server certificate verification failed" thus "Unable to fetch in submodule path 'extensions/DPLforum'"

January 06

 * 18:50 - addshore - Manual pull to pickup this commit cleaning cronjobs before the next jobqueue jobqueue run
 * 18:26 - addshore - Manually ran update.php across everything AGAIN as it was needed for the last commit.
 * 18:21 - addshore - Manual pull to pickup another commit fixing more of lcoal settings, John again needs to be slapped!
 * 18:04 - addshore - Run maintenance.php for ALL wikis, I gather some runs have been missed during the whole cron not pulling anisble thing!
 * 17:49 - addshore - Manually stab the job queue, As far as I can tell from this commit the cron should work but I dont want to wait 10 mins to find out.!
 * 17:39 - addshore - Manual anisble pull of this commit to fix broken local settings. John needs to be slaped for this commit
 * 17:25 - addshore - Manual anisble pull
 * 17:22 - addshore - uncomment anisble-pull line from crontab, Not sure who has done this..., Also change the cron to every 10 mins. As this may have been like this for a while I am bracing for some errors...

2014

 * Happy New Year  ·addshore·  talk to me! 17:23, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

December 14

 * 18:30 Kudu (talk) Installed git from wheezy-backports, updated MediaWiki to 1.22 and ran update.php on all wikis.

December 1

 * 00:24 Kudu (talk) Chmodded /var/log/mediawiki to 770.

November 26

 * 03:12 Kudu (talk) Ran deleteBatch.php on a list of ATT redirects and ran deleteArchivedRevisions.php on All The Tropes.

November 23

 * 23:54 Kudu (talk) Re-chmodded the web directory and the MediaWiki log directory to 770 and set the git core.fileMode configuration option to false in the MediaWiki directory to stop it from messing with permissions.
 * 18:26 Kudu (talk) Ran deleteBatch.php on a list of Troper Tales pages and ran deleteArchivedRevisions.php on All The Tropes.

November 21

 * 00:25 addshore - manually run i18n cache update

November 17

 * 18:54 Addshore - update.php on all wikis
 * 18:48 Addshore - 'git stash' changes on extension/CentralNotice prod2. Not sure why the changes were there but they were stopping ansible from updating the extension

November 12

 * 02:47 Kudu (talk) Imported the new file description pages on ATT and ran deleteOldRevisions.php on the file pages thanks to some SQL/xargs magic.

November 11

 * 23:23 Kudu (talk) Imported the file description pages on ATT and ran deleteArchivedFiles.php and deleteOldRevisions.php on the file pages thanks to some SQL/xargs magic.
 * 22:11 Kudu (talk) Running importImages.php on ATT's missing and numeric images.

November 10

 * 15:42 Kudu (talk) Ran update.php and rebuildTitleKeys.php on all wikis.

November 07

 * 20:44 Addshore - Manually run 18n cache update as the cron isnt working
 * 20:09 Addshore - Reenable cron per the 12 commits just being this....
 * 19:59 Addshore - commenting out anisble-pull from prod2 crontab after somehow pushing 12 unexpected and unknown changes to github...
 * 19:52 Addshore Correct file owners and permissions for allthetropes images directory -R

November 02

 * 12:24 Addshore Rebuilding all caches to reflect file location moves due to upload hostname change

November 01

 * 09:43 Addshore Ran update.php on wikinambaswiki resolving db errors see here

October 20

 * 19:09 Kudu (talk) Set up CopperEgg server monitoring.

September 29

 * 10:11 Kudu (talk) Renamed the database `alleniawikiwiki` to `alleniawiki`.

July 31

 * 22:48 Kudu (talk) Changed MySQL parameters: table_open_cache=2500, thread_cache_size=48. Kudu (talk) 22:48, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 22:37 Kudu (talk) Change MySQL parameters: long_query_time=1, query_cache_size=32M, slow_query_log=1, table_open_cache=400, thread_cache_size=4. Those are preliminary settings, they should be adjusted more carefully eventually.