Meeting:2010/08/19

Meeting (to be) held on 2010/08/19 at 19:00 in Mary Campbell Room

Previous meeting: 12 August 2010 19:00:00 Next meeting: 26 August 2010 19:00:00

Minutes

• HomeNodes (daveruss)
  • Omdurman Road
    • Sent email to soton and zepler addresses. Still no response.
  • Highfield Crescent
    • Some correspondence. Not sure of result. Still need to fix the subject line of Nagios emails. See todo:task/298.
  • Thackeray Road
    • This is now working.

• Admin Tasks
  • Redirect from Portal back to login page (daveruss)
    • Fixed. Need a long term fix to the dual-ssh problem, by removing 'ssh root@'. See todo:task/312.
    • Clients list needs fixing for the first person who logs in on a given day.
  • JRS test account (Davetaz)
    • http://sown.org.uk/irc/2010/08/13#1536
    • http://sown.org.uk/irc/2010/08/13#1601
  • UPS Test Plan (Morse)
    • Morse is to fix this soon.
  • Backup2/Backup3 debsums and packages flapping (crwilliams)
    • todo:task/309
    • Need to write a script to handle the timeouts.
  • Community account audit (daveruss)
    • Done.
  • Contact us replies (Davetaz)
    • Done.
  • Phone line in Zepler Server Room 1 (Davetaz)
    • Davetaz is going investigate.
  • Nagios check frequency & database size (crwilliams)
    • We would like to reduce the frequency of various checks, particularly the uppityness of the cronjobs check.
  • Database Anomalies (daveruss)
    • These are funny and we're going to try to identify the reason they exist. We identified the reason for some of them.

• Workshop planning
  • todo:task/298
  • todo:task/309
  • todo:task/311
  • todo:task/312
  • todo:task/313
  • todo:task/314
  • todo:task/315
  • todo:task/316

• Projects
  • OpenWRT backfire packages (Leth)
    • No progress.
  • SOWN VoIP (SjH)
    • Little more work but not of statistical significance.
  • ISDN line (Davetaz)
    • Davetaz has passed this on.
  • Wifi Survey (daveruss)
    • There is an application called WiFiFoFum which runs on Android, jailbroken iPhone/iPod and Windows Mobile. We should consider using this for future surveys.
  • SOWN VM Server
    • No progress.
  • SOWN-GW2
    • No progress.

• AOB
  • Planning for new academic year (daveruss)

• New Directive
  • All tasks carried out on core servers MUST have a todo entry before they are carried out.