[squeak-dev] Box-Admins Team Report for February, 2009

The box-admins team is reponsible for seeing that the community shared
server is maintained and setting up any new features to be hosted on
that server.

For February, 2009:

We received a complain from Undernet that an undesirable bot was
accessing their IRC network from our server.  At first I was skeptical
since I couldn't find any indication on the server that any such thing
was happening.  But in the end I did find a bot service running under
the name 'bash'.  I killed it and remove the cron entry which started
it.  I still don't know how it got on the server.  Some timestamps such
it may have happened during the difficulty we had with the server in
October.  As far as I can tell other than running this bot nothing else
was done.  Göran later ran chkrootkit and rkhunter and found nothing.
For now we are keeping our eyes open and have held on to the installed
files for any further analysis that comes to mind.

Otherwise the server has been running smoothly and continuously since
the trouble in October.

Some discussion of replacing the server has begun although it is early
in the process.  First we have to determine what is a reasonable budget
and I'm hopeful that with the new Leadership team we can have greater
transparency in this area.

I want to thank the community for the monetary support needed to fund
the server and remind you that the bills continue to appear and that you
can currently contribute to the hosting costs by going to

http://www.squeak.org/Foundation/SupportSqueak/

and purchasing a Squeak badge. Note that a donation here may be used for
other Squeak community services including but not limited to
development, development infrastructure, and promotion of Squeak.

The services being hosted have continued to grow and include (but are
not limited to):

http://www.squeak.org/

SqueakMap - http://map.squeak.org/

http://ftp.squeak.org/

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/

http://source.squeakfoundation.org/

http://map.squeak.org/

https://svn.squeak.org/

http://update.squeakfoundation.org/

http://wiki.squeak.org/

http://bugs.squeak.org/

and DNS services for squeak.org and squeakfoundation.org domain names.

Ken