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01/07/16:

11:31 Ticket #894 (Brute Force Attacks Against WordPress XMLRPC) updated by chris
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11:23 Ticket #894 (Brute Force Attacks Against WordPress XMLRPC) updated by chris
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11:23 Ticket #894 (Brute Force Attacks Against WordPress XMLRPC) created by chris
For a few months I have see a lot of requests going to WordPress
11:20 Ticket #701 (Emails & Telephone calls) updated by paul
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No drupal security updates need to be applied this week.

01/06/16:

11:59 Ticket #692 (Debian Updates) updated by chris
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Debian …

01/03/16:

23:49 BoaCronJobs edited by chris
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20:35 Ticket #692 (Debian Updates) updated by chris
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I have no idea why BOA installed samba but since it was installed it has …
20:33 WikiStart edited by chris
Removed link: BOA Updates: PuffinServer#Upgradetickets as we have … (diff)
20:14 Ticket #587 (Puffin MySQL Tuning) updated by chris
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Cc list updated, jim and ed removed, paul and ade added.
20:13 Ticket #587 (Puffin MySQL Tuning) updated by chris
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Some recent MySQL config changes have been recorded on …
20:10 Ticket #883 (On February 24th 2016, Drupal 6 will reach end of life and no longer be ...) closed by chris
wontfix: Closing as the plan is to switch to WordPress around April 2016, see …
20:08 Ticket #754 (Can we upgrade from PHP 5.3?) closed by chris
wontfix: Closing as wontfix -- we have stopped updating BOA, the last update was …
20:07 PuffinServer edited by chris
Updated upgrade tickets to make it clear that BOA 2.4.2 was the last ever … (diff)
20:04 Ticket #863 (BOA-2.4.4) closed by chris
wontfix: Closing BOA 2.4.7 ticket:889, BOA 2.4.6 ticket:872, BOA 2.4.5 ticket:864, …
20:04 Ticket #864 (BOA 2.4.5) closed by chris
wontfix: Closing BOA 2.4.7 ticket:889, BOA 2.4.6 ticket:872, BOA 2.4.5 ticket:864, …
20:03 Ticket #872 (BOA 2.4.6) closed by chris
wontfix: Closing BOA 2.4.7 ticket:889, BOA 2.4.6 ticket:872, BOA 2.4.5 ticket:864, …
20:03 Ticket #889 (BOA-2.4.7) closed by chris
wontfix: Closing BOA 2.4.7 ticket:889, BOA 2.4.6 ticket:872, BOA 2.4.5 ticket:864, …
20:03 Ticket #854 (BOA 2.4.3) closed by chris
wontfix: Closing BOA 2.4.7 ticket:889, BOA 2.4.6 ticket:872, BOA 2.4.5 ticket:864, …
19:38 Ticket #670 (Roll back performance customisations and use stock BOA settings where ...) closed by chris
fixed: Replying to jim: > > Given so much has changed since the …
19:34 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) closed by chris
fixed: Closing this ticket as the load spike problem appears to have been solved …
19:32 Ticket #893 (BOA Cron Jobs) updated by chris
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I have updated the wiki:PuffinServer#LoadSpikes documentation to reflect …
19:30 PuffinServerBoaLoadSpikes edited by chris
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19:29 PuffinServer edited by chris
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19:28 PuffinServer edited by chris
Updated BOA load spike issue documentation (diff)
19:12 Ticket #893 (BOA Cron Jobs) updated by chris
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I have spent some time looking at the …
19:02 puffin_2016-01-03_http_loadtime-month.png attached to Ticket #893 by chris
19:02 puffin_2016-01-03_load-month.png attached to Ticket #893 by chris
18:55 puffin-2016-01-03_multips_memory-week.png attached to Ticket #893 by chris

01/01/16:

13:12 Ticket #893 (BOA Cron Jobs) updated by chris
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I have just made some tweaks to some server settings, doubling the Redis …

12/27/15:

12:03 Ticket #893 (BOA Cron Jobs) updated by chris
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I have been keeping an eye on the site and the Munin graphs, although this …
11:56 BoaCronJobs edited by chris
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11:48 multips-month.png attached to BoaCronJobs by chris
11:47 load-month.png attached to BoaCronJobs by chris
11:47 http_loadtime-month.png attached to BoaCronJobs by chris
11:45 BoaCronJobs edited by chris
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12/24/15:

14:08 PuffinServer edited by chris
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14:00 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by chris
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Thanks Sam, I wrote the following before I read your comments: I think I …
13:55 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by sam
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13:45 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by sam
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13:43 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by chris
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Replying to paul: > @Chris > > Normally I can but I couldn't …
13:13 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by paul
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@Chris Normally I can but I couldn't figure out quickly how to to run the …
12:42 Ticket #893 (BOA Cron Jobs) updated by chris
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I have updated the …
12:30 BoaCronJobs edited by chris
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11:57 BoaCronJobs edited by chris
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11:54 BoaCronJobs created by chris
Page created
11:52 PuffinServer edited by chris
Created link to BoaCronJobs (diff)
11:50 PuffinServer edited by chris
Various updates re BOA tickets and server retirement (diff)
11:45 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by sam
Hi Paul Yep it looks like I can. I enabled it for User Registration …
11:42 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by chris
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Replying to paul: > > Would you have a look to see if you …
11:39 Ticket #893 (BOA Cron Jobs) created by chris
All the BOA cron jobs were stopped on ticket:846#comment:88. This ticket …
00:37 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by paul
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Sam, Would you have a look to see if you can configure the honeypot …
00:17 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by paul
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I'll install the honeypot module which should prevent spam bots from …

12/23/15:

23:55 Ticket #701 (Emails & Telephone calls) updated by paul
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Email communications.
19:03 Ticket #692 (Debian Updates) updated by chris
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Debian …
18:47 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by chris
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Replying to kate: > > 1. There were many bash "killall" …
18:41 PuffinServer edited by chris
RAM and CPU update recorded (diff)
18:26 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by kate
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Hi, My colleague Chris Croome mentioned in our IRC channel that there …
18:19 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by chris
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Replying to ade: > > Sorry have taken holiday to coincide …
16:55 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by ade
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16:53 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by sam
Hi all Thanks for your work on this. I see the site is available again …
13:48 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by chris
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It is knackered again already: […] I'm really giving up for the day …
13:44 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by chris
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It is up again: […] […] No idea how long it will be up for, not …
13:38 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by chris
I'm going to have one last try for the day to get the server up, rebooting …
13:36 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by chris
So fucked: […]
13:13 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by chris
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> Replying to paul: > > > I'll be around later this …
13:00 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by chris
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Replying to paul: > > Is the server swapping to the hard …
12:36 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by paul
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Is the server swapping to the hard drive? I'll be around later this …
12:32 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by chris
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[…] I think I'm going to give up on trying to keep the server up today …
12:27 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by chris
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It is only getting worse: […]
12:25 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by chris
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PuffinServer was down overnight again due to MySQL locking up, see …
12:15 Ticket #890 (Site offline.) updated by chris
Going to follow this up on the load spike ticket, ticket:846
12:13 Ticket #890 (Site offline.) updated by chris
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PuffinServer is not even able to return a value for uptime again, it …
11:59 Ticket #890 (Site offline.) updated by chris
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Things look fine now: […] I'll reboot it back to 9GB of RAM tonight.
11:44 Ticket #890 (Site offline.) updated by chris
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Same thing has happened, very high loads and: […] So: […] …

12/22/15:

11:39 Ticket #892 (MediWiki Security Release: 1.26.1, 1.25.4, 1.24.5 and 1.23.12) updated by chris
And a …
11:37 Ticket #692 (Debian Updates) updated by chris
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Debian …

12/18/15:

10:46 Ticket #892 (MediWiki Security Release: 1.26.1, 1.25.4, 1.24.5 and 1.23.12) created by chris
Email to the …

12/17/15:

18:06 Ticket #891 (Issue with TTT and REconomy websites after upgrade to WP 4.4) updated by laura
Just a quick note to say thanks Chris for fixing, happy for other plugins …
12:37 Ticket #692 (Debian Updates) updated by chris
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Debian …
12:11 Ticket #891 (Issue with TTT and REconomy websites after upgrade to WP 4.4) updated by chris
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I have also edited, /wp-content/uploads/delightful-downloads/.htaccess
11:51 Ticket #891 (Issue with TTT and REconomy websites after upgrade to WP 4.4) updated by chris
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Replying to sam: > > The site looks OK to me (see screenshot) …
11:28 Ticket #891 (Issue with TTT and REconomy websites after upgrade to WP 4.4) updated by sam
Hi Laura The site looks OK to me (see screenshot) I can also access the …
11:26 reconomy.png attached to Ticket #891 by sam
11:18 Ticket #891 (Issue with TTT and REconomy websites after upgrade to WP 4.4) created by chris
Email from Laura: > Just to let you know there's a bit of an oddity …
10:52 Ticket #701 (Emails & Telephone calls) updated by paul
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No drupal security updates need to be applied this week.

12/14/15:

16:35 Ticket #890 (Site offline.) updated by paul
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Nothing further to add really. The initial problem was that the mysql …
11:11 Ticket #878 (Reconomy.org add subdomains) updated by chris
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Replying to ade: > > I thought I had added this as a ticket, …
11:10 Ticket #876 (Can we add a sub domain to reconomy.org) closed by chris
fixed: Resolved on ticket:878

12/13/15:

17:06 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by chris
The UAs were extracted like this: […]
16:58 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by chris
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I think a lot of the load issues are caused by bots, looking at the latest …
14:18 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by chris
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Another bad day for load spikes, these are the subject lines from lfd …

12/12/15:

15:46 Ticket #890 (Site offline.) updated by chris
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There is nothing in /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages, in …
12:22 Ticket #890 (Site offline.) updated by chris
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I don't know exactly what the problem was with MySQL, but I had to force …
11:25 Ticket #890 (Site offline.) updated by paul
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/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Too …
11:20 Ticket #890 (Site offline.) updated by paul
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10:54 Ticket #890 (Site offline.) created by sam
It's serving a page, so may be Drupal level problem rather than server …

12/10/15:

17:47 Ticket #692 (Debian Updates) updated by chris
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[https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-5547-release-notes/ MariaDB …
14:14 Ticket #701 (Emails & Telephone calls) updated by paul
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No drupal security updates need to be applied this week.

12/08/15:

17:51 PuffinServer edited by chris
Added link to ticket:889 and various updates (diff)
17:42 Ticket #889 (BOA-2.4.7) updated by chris
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17:35 Ticket #889 (BOA-2.4.7) updated by chris
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17:35 Ticket #889 (BOA-2.4.7) created by chris
Following is the …

12/07/15:

22:33 Ticket #692 (Debian Updates) updated by chris
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PenguinServer updates: …
13:21 Ticket #701 (Emails & Telephone calls) updated by paul
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Confirmed that the news website is up to date. …
11:40 Ticket #884 (RE: http://news.transitionnetwork.org) updated by paul
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11:38 Ticket #884 (RE: http://news.transitionnetwork.org) updated by paul
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Thanks Chris. I'll use Drush ..
11:31 Ticket #884 (RE: http://news.transitionnetwork.org) updated by chris
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Replying to paul: > > I thought these were just going to the …
11:21 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by chris
Replying to ade: > > Sounds ideal Chris, > Please invoice as …
11:19 Ticket #846 (Load Spikes on BOA PuffinServer) updated by ade
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11:18 Ticket #884 (RE: http://news.transitionnetwork.org) updated by paul
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Sorry Chris, I thought these were just going to the mailing list for …
11:14 Ticket #886 (Re: http://news.transitionnetwork.org) closed by paul
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11:13 Ticket #885 (Re: http://news.transitionnetwork.org) closed by paul
duplicate
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