cvs mirror stuck and lists.gnu.org offline (was: mkdir -p and network drives)

[Bob Proulx]

Eric Blake wrote:
> By the way, the coreutils anon CVS mirror syncronization appears to
> be hung again, I haven't seen any of your patches show up on
> savannah.gnu.org since April 22nd.

I think the problem is the FSF office and equipment move.  Or at the
least it is complicated by it.  I can say authoritatively that
savannah.gnu.org is getting the latest CVS archive updates hourly
because I can see the rsync pull in the log files.  But after that it
is not making it to the public savannah mirror.  I don't know what
process they use behind the scenes and we can't affect it.  We just
have to wait.

Many people may also have noticed general mailing list strangeness.
Such as no one who is not subscribed being able to get messages onto
the lists and things like that.  It depends upon the list but I know
this one and others have a backlog of valid messages that we are
unable to send through.  The web interface is offline and has been
since last Friday.

  http://mail.gnu.org
  http://lists.gnu.org

Here are some clues to the problem

  https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=3765

  The Free Software Foundation will be moving to a new office on Friday
  April 29, 2005.

  Starting Friday morning (GMT-4) and extending through the weekend,
  lists.gnu.org and lists.nongnu.org (mailing list services) will be
  unavailable.

And this:

  https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=3781

  To allow the mail server to recover the e-mail backlog (due to the
  last week-end downtime) asap, the FSF sysadmins decided to turn the
  HTTP server down, which includes access to the Mailman administration.

I have questions to the admins in their ticket queues.  But they seem
to be quite busy right now and I don't have any more information.

Bob