Category Archives: sysadmin

Weekly roundup 2017 – week 14

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Donald Stewart

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 | 8 Comments

Web services shut down preventively

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Rémi Verschelde

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 | 35 Comments

Servers downtime

Posted on October 20, 2013 by Anne Nicolas

Many of our servers are currently unreachable. The reason is still unknown, but we expect that the problem will be fixed tomorrow, when someone is available at the data-center. Update: servers are back online.

Posted in sysadmin | 6 Comments

It’s not just Friday..

Posted on July 26, 2013 by MrsB

Today is a day to send thanks to those who toil away in the background. They’re overworked and under appreciated. Often never thought of until something goes wrong but always there, protecting, providing and helping us do what we do … Continue reading →

Posted in Mageia, sysadmin, team | 9 Comments

They Make Mageia – the Sysadmin team : Installation and configuration of software on Mageia servers

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Anne Nicolas

In the Mageia project the sysadmin team is responsible for the setup and maintenance of all the Mageia infrastructure, for users and contributors alike. To help people understand what this team does, and to share some ideas with other sysadmins, … Continue reading →

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