T.A.W.A.N.

Upgraded to the latest wordpress nightly. Also added a new theme. Yell if anything broke :)

- Niall

If you don’t know or care what subversion or blogs.nonado.net is, you can stop reading now.

I’ve been keeping up with upgrading blogs.nonado.net, so it’s currently running the latest (slightly patched) nightly release, and themes are now working :) There are still bugs, and I’m fixing them where I can, but let me know if something doesn’t work.

I’ve also set subversion to send an email root any time a change is committed. You don’t get the full diff, just the change summary and a list of affected files.

- Niall

As you may or may not know, spleen.evil.ie provides a number of services for nonado - things like slave DNS and backup MX.
spleen also appears to be on an overloaded host, and has recently been hitting loads of 50+ at between 6 and 7am each morning (which is between 10 and 11pm over here which is why I’m noticing). To fix this, some of the services that spleen runs will be moving elsewhere over the next week or so.
Downtime will be kept to a minimum, but the occasional email may get delayed, and there will be the odd service disruption, so sorry about that in advance.

– Niall

Lo folks. After some consultation with bytemark, nonado will be moving from a uml (User Mode Linux) virtual machine to a Xen virtual machine. Xen is the new kid on the block for doing virtual machines, and is supposed to be the way forward. Bytemark contacted me yesterday to know if we wanted to migrate and see if that fixes some debugging issues we’ve been having. From the sounds of it, it looks like they’re going to be migrating everything to Xen over the next while if all the testing continues as it as done. I’ve been told it’ll require about 20 mins of downtime to switch, but i’ve no idea when this will be. I’ll try to keep here updated about it.

– diamond

After some… well, hacking, it’s back online, and configured in a way that doesn’t make my eyes bleed, which i think is a positive thing. Please, play with it, poke it, file tickets etc, and we’ll see what works and what doesn’t.

– diamond

Well, not ‘moved’ exactly so much as now available from a simpler url. lists.nonado.net now brings you straight to the list info page of mailman. mailman.nonado.net also works, but is i’d encourage people to use the former as we may switch from mailman in the future.

– diamond

I’ve been working on setting up request tracker at support.nonado.net. When setup, this will give a central point of contact for any issues, requests, suggestions as regards the adminning of nonado, and allow anyone who wants to help admin keep track of all the requests that have been entered. When finished, you’ll be able to either log in to the website, or email support at nonado.net which will automatically create a ticket (or keep track of one that you’re replying too). It’s all quite clever and stuff, it’s just being a right pita at the moment trying to balance security and memory usage. Anyway, i’ll update here when things are ready for more testing, rt is currently not in a usable state ,-)

– diamond

This blog is intended to keep people uptodate with the various admin activites on nonado. In order to break the monotony, we hope to avoid posting at regular intervals, to see if that helps.

— diamond