Tech Team Report for month of April

The following points are for reading and discussing at the council meeting in May 2002

Please don't clog the mailing list with requests just mark them and ask me when all council can hear answer without filling a mailing program

What we have done this month:

Servers

• Changed ip addy on se01.scoutlink.net
• nl01.scoutlink.net crashed and we could not recover services for about 45mins but back up eventually.
• Trying to contact server admin for no01.scoutlink.net to sort out why server is down.

Correspondence

• Sent our commands popups to some channel ops to use and practice with.
• E-mail from Bossman withdrawing his offer of a UK server.
• Request for instruction on digest form for #jambo list.
• Request from no-use re users with @scoutlink.net mail addies. List is being sent to all CC's for them to look over and re-approve.
• Requested that all users re-register their nicks with Nickserv due to database failure.
• E-mail from Teddy advising se03.scoutlink.net downtime to add more RAM.
• Sent out server requirements to Mr_Y
• Sent out server requirements to Maddog
• Forwarded some mail on to webteam for actioning that was sent to techteam.
• Lots of E-mail re network bot policy including flames and misunderstandings.
• Received information for a new server in Sweden from Mr_Y and  it will be se02.scoutlink.net
• Received mail from a leader in the US re getting his scouts online. Answered the technical bits but referred him to Nerilka for US approach.
• Received e-mail from Space_nl that Magnus is being worked on currently. Magnus is the other approved bot.
• forwarded reports from #youth and #irc_help

Tweaking and adjusting

• When trying to restart the services from the ircd rather than the root. We lost Nickserv database. This as per mail was due to changes that took place on the physical machine that nl01.scoutlink.net is on. Upgrades and such
• Dropped some nicks that ppl had taken over after Nickserv database loss.
• Helped Bip and Jacka get Bot onto au04.scoutlink.net. She is now running heaps faster and more reliably.
• Adjusted eirc and apirc connections again.
• Completed checks on mainframe to recommend level 5 ops to council.
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Tech Team specific

• Looked into reasons for akick and chanbans to both occur when akick is done. Outcome these cannot be separated as chanban is necessary to stop autorejoins.
• Organising list of JOTI techies to send to JOTI team
• Removed Eagle from US from #jambo mailing list due to his use of offensive language.

Ops and Olines and mailing lists

• Added two olines and removed one oline for Nerilka.
• Added @scoutlink.net addy for ananas - #scan op.

Works in progress

• Services auto backup script.
• Statserv into final phases of testing. Example test page available to see at http://hathi.scouting.dk/sl-irc/
• Moving main services from nl01.scoutlink.net to dk02.scoutlink.net
• Moving secondary backup services to au04.scoutlink.net
• Liaison with fips and slops.scoutlink.net team re password and security issues.
• Larger remap now begun  - will be done when services are moved to their new homes.
• Currently working on script and webpage that allows for  live listing of servers and user connection from same - this is still work in progress
• Compiling document store -    Server Admins list, Server lists, Channel lists etc
• Tech team page - techies.scoutlink.net - to store documents etc that tt use all the time...also tt page for scoutlink.net - techteam.scoutlink.net - processes requires some tools being translated into english

General

• Glines put in place for various long term repeated server idlers.
• Glined an Italian bot.
• Justifying our position and roles on scoutlink - this month's topic is - Bots
• Keeping servers up and running
• Answering questions
• Helping users to understand functions
• Being all round nice people...lol and trying to be more visible on scoutlink for users

Ops course and documents

• swedish translation received and uploaded
• francais translation received and uploaded
• trying to organise #youth ops course for Lorri_oz's temp joti ops

We are currently reviewing team members as some have heavier commitments with school and college at present, so have not been as active in the last month or so. Biff also has now gone aboard ship and will be trying very hard to stay connected.

from the Tech Team

Ellie, Leon, Biff, Kendod, Kinglouis, DanScout, Raydn and Megalive