Re: decommissioning parisc-linux.org

[John David Anglin <dave.anglin@xxxxxxxx>]

On 8-Feb-12, at 5:16 PM, Thibaut VARENE wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:33 PM, dann frazier <dannf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > As Paul noted[1], parisc-linux.org was running a vulnerable
> > apache which got the attention of HP's security audit team. I've been
> > doing most of the maintenance of the OS on this machine for a while,
> > but that has just meant apt-get upgrading when cron-apt told me to  
> > for
> > a few years. Turns out apache-ssl was obsolete (an etch version!), so
> > no amount of upgrading was going to fix that.
> >
> > At this point I've removed apache-ssl. I tried installing apache2 to
> > see if any web pages would magically work - it didn't, so right now
> > the website is 404 farm :( I didn't spend much time trying to handle
> > that since.....
> >
> > parisc-linux.org is running the last stable release of Debian that
> > supported hppa ('lenny'), and its life is now expired. As such, I
> > think we really need to migrate the site to another maintained
> > distribution and/or architecture. I'm willing to help migrate  
> > services
> > for the next month or so - let's just say 2012.03.14 for a good round
> > (heh) date - after which I plan to halt this system and let HP know
> > the hardware can be put to other uses. From what I can tell, we
> > originally installed this system almost exactly 9 years ago - ah,
> > rememember its predecessor dsl2? Good times. Anyway -
> >
> > *************************************************************************
> > *** If you need any data off this machine, now's the time to grab  
> > it! ***
> > *************************************************************************
> >
> > If you'd like to take over longterm hosting the website/domain,  
> > please
> > get in touch with taggart or I. If you'd like to continue using the
> > machine and/or HP's network to do the hosting, I can probably find a
> > contact for you there - though I wouldn't bet on it.
> >
> > In the meantime, if anyone wants to get the website working on  
> > apache2
> > for the remainder of the system's lifetime, please let me know.
>
> Hi Dann,
>
> What's the status of @p-l.o email addresses? I'm receiving a fair bit
> of email on this domain, and I think others do too, if we need to move
> on elsewhere it'd be nice to have a little headstart... ;)
>
> Thanks
>
> T-Bone
>
>
> --
> Thibaut VARENE
> http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/


parisc-linux.org could be updated to unstable.  As I have mentioned, I  
am working
to restart an unstable buildd for parisc.  The magnum machine in the  
ESIEE cluster
is currently being updated for this purpose.  It is currently running  
a 3.2.2 kernel
and glibc 2.13-10.  I intend to update it to 3.2.4 and glibc 2.13-26  
this weekend.
I have built a big hunk of unstable/

As far as I can tell, the last kernel patch that I post to the @p-l.o  
list, resolves the SMP
stability issues that have plagued parisc for years.  I now have about  
six weeks running
experience on rp3440s without a single random segmentation fault or  
hpmc.  The
machines have been running at load levels not previously possible.   
This is the result
of many incremental fixes to the tool chain and the kernel.

I have no objection to moving the site to another arch although there  
is some political
benefit to having it run on parisc.  I am willing to try to build  
apache2 from unstable.

I believe it would be useful to keep the site going until we see if  
restarting buildd will
fly or not given the current level of improvement.

Regards,
Dave
--
John David Anglin	dave.anglin@xxxxxxxx

PS: My first parisc machine is still running and it is 22 years old!

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