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Category Archives: sysadmin
An avalanche of AI bots is repeatedly taking parts of our website down
We have always had bots visiting our website. They were mostly kind bots, like the crawlers that keep the databases of search engines up-to-date. Those kind bots start by looking at our robots.txt files before doing anything, and respect the … Continue reading
[SOLVED] Most of mageia.org temporarily down
Since a little over two hours ago, most of our servers can no longer be reached. The issue is under investigation and we hope to have all of our servers back online soon. Update: One of our sysadmins explained that … Continue reading
Mageia Infrastructure planned outage
In case you missed the announcement on all the mailing lists, Mageia infrastructure will be shut down for scheduled maintenance beginning on: Tuesday February 27th, from around 10.00 UTC That means Forums, Wiki, Bugzilla, Mailing lists, website (www.mageia.org) and the buildsystem … Continue reading
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Weekly roundup 2017 – week 14
Infrastructure So sadly the big news this week is the outage of two of our servers for needed upgrades. The status of the services that are down can be read here. Our sysadmins have been hard at work, already pushing … Continue reading
Posted in Atelier, community, packager, QA, release, security, sysadmin, Weekly roundup
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Web services shut down preventively
Our sysadmins decided to preventively shut down most of our web services which were still running on end-of-life Mageia versions, as their potential vulnerability to remote attacks was publicised in third party communities. The migration of those services to Mageia 5 servers … Continue reading
Posted in Mageia, security, sysadmin
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