Greetings,
The mailing list is now operational again!
At least I presume it is, if this test message gets through :-)
So we're back!
The recent outage was caused by somebody[*] cracking the common-lisp.net server. Our friendly admins have been working hard to get everything reinstalled, restored, and operational again. (Thanks!)
I believe that everything is back up now except for anonymous CVS. Meanwhile there's a pretty up-to-date copy of SLIME here:
http://www.bluetail.com/~luke/misc/lisp/slime-may-2004.tar.gz
If anonymous CVS doesn't make it back up soon I'll make a temporary rsync mirror of the repository on another machine for that purpose.
For committers the repository is available via SSH. Also, the common-lisp.net guys would be greatful if you check that your PGP public key is in ~/pubkey.asc on the server.
Cheers, Luke
[*]: The crack may have been by a person, but more likely it was the ghost that haunts CMUCL's hosters.
Luke Gorrie luke@bluetail.com writes:
I believe that everything is back up now except for anonymous CVS.
Huzzah! Anonymous CVS is back up so we should be 100% in the air again. Special thanks to Mario Mommer!
Our friends at common-lisp.net have kindly deputised me as an extra server admin, so if there're any troubles I can try to fix them. (And feel free to call me "Sir" in future!)
-Luke
Kind Sir Luke,
I'm having a little trouble checking out a new version of SLIME. It seems that anonymous CVS is not completely back in service.
% cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@common-lisp.net:/project/slime/cvsroot login(Logging in to anonymous@common-lisp.net) CVS password: anonymous cvs [login aborted]: connect to common-lisp.net:2401 failed: Connection refused
Or am I doing something wrong?
Best regards Jens
Jens Bjerrehuus jens@bjerrehuus.dk writes:
Kind Sir Luke,
...
Or am I doing something wrong?
I'm not Luke, but I can answer the question:
From: nikodemus@random-state.net Subject: Common-lisp.net anoncvs Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Date: 9 Jun 2004 16:57:49 GMT
The common-lisp.net anoncvs was briefly up and running between last night and approximately five minutes ago, when we shut it down again due to the following advisories:
http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/092004.html
Developer CVS access is not affected. We will restore non-developer CVS access as soon as we figure out a maintainable way to minimize the risks.
Cheers,
-- Nikodemus Siivola
From: Nikodemus Siivola tsiivola@cc.hut.fi Subject: Re: Towards 1.0? Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.slime.devel Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 22:00:14 +0300 (EEST)
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Edi Weitz wrote:
Given the enduring non-availabilty of anonymous CVS[1] the fact that SLIME is only available via CVS makes it kind of difficult for us mere mortals which aren't registered SLIME developers.
A bandaid:
As a temprorary workaround for those who have been tracking various projects via CVS we've put up tarballs of the indidual project CVSROOTs at:
http://www.common-lisp.net/cvs_tarballs/
These tarballs are updated every 15 minutes.
On Jun 9, 2004, at 1:56 PM, Helmut Eller wrote:
Developer CVS access is not affected. We will restore non-developer CVS access as soon as we figure out a maintainable way to minimize the risks.
Perhaps a sandboxed read-only CVS mirror? Caveat: I've never done this but know it can be done. If running two CVS servers is too much of a hassle, maybe just hourly tarballs built by a cron job? You can tar either the repository or a checkout of it.
Maybe one of us who uses arch can use this: http://wiki.gnuarch.org/moin.cgi/tla_2dtools_2ftla_2dcvs_2dsync
Steve
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Steve Jenson wrote:
Perhaps a sandboxed read-only CVS mirror? Caveat: I've never done this but know it can be done. If running two CVS servers is too much of a
This is essentially what will happen, in one form or another.
hassle, maybe just hourly tarballs built by a cron job? You can tar either the repository or a checkout of it.
How about quarter-hourly? ;-)
http://www.common-lisp.net/cvs_tarballs/
Cheers,
-- Nikodemus "Not as clumsy or random as a C++ or Java. An elegant weapon for a more civilized time."
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