[Deskaheh-sysadmin] cron / syndication / backup issues on Hamilton site

[john milton]

Hi folks:

First let me say thanks:

Emails from last week make it sound like things are being done to try to 
fix some of the deskaheh / hamilton tech issues and thats great!

Also thanks to Damian for coming forward to help out!

One of the issues on the table is that Hamilton's features no longer 
appear in the right hand col. of the world site. I assume that this is 
because our crontasks are broken and that the syndicate tasks do that work.

I understand that fixing the backup portion of this problem may take 
some time, but i was wondering if getting just the features problem 
fixed might be easier than fixing the whole thing, since i assume that 
the nature of the problem (if there is any at all) might be different there

Also there was an email from Brian saying that he was still doing daily 
backups. It's a bit of a mystery to me how that works since the cron 
part of that seems to be unrunnable right now, it would be helpful to 
hear more from Brian about the details of what is being done and how

In the past finn manually kicked the backup process to produce an sql 
backup that I was able to download. It would be good if we could do that 
on a regular (weekly?) basis so that we are confident that we have 
backup I would be happy to run whatever is necessary to create the 
backup myself, if I was told how, except that there is another issue in 
the way, there is a problem with my deskaheh account:

I can connect via sftp using filezilla, and navigate around the system 
fine, but when I try to log on a console session using ssh with putty as 
my client and  with the same user id and password I get this:

login as: *************
Password: *************
Access denied
No supported authentication methods left to try!


Comments?
-- 
Peace: John Milton

Email: john at johnmilton.ca
Web: johnmilton.ca

PGP encrypted mail is welcome, my key is here: 
http://www.hwcn.org/~aa492/security.htm