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puppet: New module: postgres
by Nico Schottelius 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

Good morning sysadmins, for those interested in puppet, we just published a new module for postgresql, which allows to specify the version and state (running/disabled) from puppet: http://www.nico.schottelius.org/blog/published-postgresql-puppet-module/ If you're interested in automating your infrastructure with puppet, we would be pretty interested to hear from you. We plan to cover that topic in one of our next meetings, although under a broader view: How to automate away all our problems [and finish nethack] Cheers, Nico -- Systems Group Sysadmin Tel: +41 (0) 44 632 76 09 D-INFK/ETH Zurich

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Sysadmin meeting: Next & previous
by Nico Schottelius 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

Good morning sysadmins, the last sysadmin was of great success, made fun and revealled some interesting details. The log is linked on the original page: http://sans.ethz.ch/meetings/2010-05-28/ The next sysadmin meeting will take place on the 2010-06-30, 1500, as seen on http://sans.ethz.ch/meetings/2010-06-30/ Feel free to forward this mail to other interested parties. Cheers, Nico -- Systems Group Sysadmin Tel: +41 (0) 44 632 76 09 D-INFK/ETH Zurich

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Information Dell-Server
by Nico Schottelius 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Hey Sysadmins, some information regarding Dell servers in general: ----- Forwarded message from someone(a)Dell.com ----- Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 11:47:11 +0200 From: someone(a)Dell.com To: someoneelse(a)ethz.ch Subject: R815 _ Lifecycle Sehr geehrter Herr .... Genaue Informationen zur Ablösung des R815 können wir nicht angeben. Wir können folgendes festhalten: - Markteinführung R815 im April/Mai 2010 - Lebenszyklus bei Server-Modellen kann zwischen 15 bis 18 Monaten sein - AMD-basierende Server-Modelle sind von den Transitionen her eher stabiler als bei den Intel-basierenden - In der Vergangenheit hat man gesehen, dass es möglich war, neue Prozessorgenerationen auf der bestehenden Plattform einzubauen, jedoch kann von dieser Tatsache nicht auf die Zukunft geschlossen werden - Im Moment kann sicher bis und mit April/Mai 2011 von weiteren Nachbestellmöglichkeiten für den R815 ausgegangen werden - Veränderungen im Marktgeschehen, in der Technologie, etc. können Veränderungen beschleunigen (oder verlangsamen) Somit können wir Ihnen keine konkrete Antwort auf Ihr heutiges Telefonat geben. Bitte fragen Sie im letzten Quartal dieses Jahres oder anfang 2011 nach, weil dann unser Produktmanagement mehr weiss. [...] ----- End forwarded message ----- Greets, Nico -- Systems Group Sysadmin Tel: +41 (0) 44 632 76 09 D-INFK/ETH Zurich

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48 Core machines
by Nico Schottelius 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

Hello sysadmins, is anyone of you interested in or knows somebody interested in getting one or more AMD Magny Cours 48 core machines? I've got some interesting quotes here and if there's more interest, we can probably get an even better price. Cheers, Nico -- Systems Group Sysadmin Tel: +41 (0) 44 632 76 09 D-INFK/ETH Zurich

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/sans/: First ETH sysadmin meeting: 2010-05-28, 1600
by Nico Schottelius 26 May '10

26 May '10

Dear sysadmins (*), We're very happy to announce the first sysadmin meeting in ETH organised by /sans/. ## Background Steven and I, both sysadmins at the D-INFK, met by accident some time ago. Since then we discovered a lot of information, ideas, projects and help that made our life as sysadmins much easier. That was the start of the SysAdmiNS (/sans/) project. ## Motivation As we see that many sysadmins (or groups of sysadmins) here are missing a lot of information and some work is repeated a lot of times in ETH, we think it is a good idea to establish a sysadmin meeting. ## Meeting 2010-05-28 We would like to invite you to the first sysadmin meeting in the CAB building (meeting point: cab/e/79) at 1600 on the **last Friday** of May 2010. If you and us have a lot of fun, we plan to organise it regulary every last Friday in the month. ### Topics * A short introduction to /sans/ and our aims * How to configure DNS without using NetIP * Free time for meeting with other sysadmins ## More information (*) If you are not a sysadmin, please forward to your sysadmins. You can find more information about /sans/ at https://sans.ethz.ch/.

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Private puppet modules within a public puppet repo
by Nico Schottelius 05 May '10

05 May '10

Hey admins! I just had a nice evening solving this problem, probably you're interested in doing this at some point, too: http://www.nico.schottelius.org/blog/how-to-add-private-puppet-modules-to-a… Have fun and a nice evening! Cheers, Nico -- Systems Group Sysadmin Tel: +41 (0) 44 632 76 09 D-INFK/ETH Zurich

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Current spam situation ([ID#1012485])
by Nico Schottelius 05 May '10

05 May '10

Good morning systems group, sysadmins and ID (Mark), as you may have noticed, there's a lot more spam coming in currently. ID has been notified by me yesterday and got several examples of spam. So they are already aware of this problem and probably doing their best to fix it (Right, Mark? ;-) This also means, there's currently no need to send out more examples of spam to me... (Again: Mark, if you need more, there's a lot of spam coming in forwarded to me by other people). Cheers, Nico -- Systems Group Sysadmin Tel: +41 (0) 44 632 76 09 D-INFK/ETH Zurich

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Zwischenbericht Gerätebörse
by Nico Schottelius 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Liebe Sysadmins und uns nahenstehenden Personen, es gibt einen ersten kurzen Erfahrungsbericht über die Gerätebörse: http://www.nico.schottelius.org/neuigkeiten/eth-geraeteboerse-funktioniert/ Vielleicht sieht man ja auch das eine odere andere Gerät von eurer Seite darauf? Viele Grüße, Nico -- Systems Group Sysadmin Tel: +41 (0) 44 632 76 09 D-INFK/ETH Zurich

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Puppet-Module veroeffentlicht
by Nico Schottelius 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

Guten Morgen Sysadmins, im Laufe der allgemeinen Säuberungsarbeiten haben wir nun angefangen, einzelne Puppet-Module bereitzustellen, die losgelöst genutzt werden können. Ein Beispiel dafür ist efsh: http://www.nico.schottelius.org/blog/published-efsh-puppet-module/ Eine allgemeine Übersicht befindet sich nun auf https://sans.ethz.ch/projects/puppet/ Viel Spaß damit, Nico -- Systems Group Sysadmin Tel: +41 (0) 44 632 76 09 D-INFK/ETH Zurich

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id-bd-dhcp-bd: readonly
by Nico Schottelius 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

Salute! Zur Info: Im Moment sind keine Änderungen an der Datenbank des DHCP von den Basisdiensten (SVN-DHCP) möglich, das Dateisystem des Rechners ist r/o gemountet: 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) M 129.132.62.0/subnet.conf r7628 = c8459e0c85c319c1e93d912f872f3b9c15922729 (git-svn) First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it... Applying: Sexy update for 172.25.0.0 Committing to https://svn.id.ethz.ch/dhcp ... Read-only file system: Can't open file '/instances/home/subversion/repos/dhcp/db/txn-current-lock': Read-only file system at /usr/lib/git-core/git-svn line 3709 Viele Grüße, Nico -- Systems Group Sysadmin Tel: +41 (0) 44 632 76 09 D-INFK/ETH Zurich

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