Paste¶
Paste servers are an easy way to share long-form content such as configuration files or log data with others over short-form communication protocols such as IRC. OpenStack runs the “lodgeit” paste software.
At a Glance¶
Overview¶
For OpenStack we use a fork of lodgeit which is based on one with bugfixes maintained by dcolish but adds back missing anti-spam features required by OpenStack.
Ansible configures lodgeit to use mariadb database backend, apache as a front-end proxy.
Manual Administrative Tasks¶
Deleting a Paste¶
The quickest way to do this is database surgery. Lodgeit uses a MariaDB container on the paste server, and only has a single table in its database, so this is quite straightforward. Connect to the database with an interactive client session like so:
sudo docker-compose -f /etc/lodgeit-compose/docker-compose.yaml exec \
mariadb bash -c '/usr/bin/mysql -uroot -p"$MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD" lodgeit'
These days we’ve configured Lodgeit to use so-called “private”
identifiers by default, so that’s what you’ll likely be keying from.
For the sake of example let’s pretend the URL is
https://paste.opendev.org/show/thisIsSomeMadeUpBlob/
. First
check the row you’re about to delete:
SELECT code FROM pastes WHERE private_id='thisIsSomeMadeUpBlob';
Note that if you instead have an old-style integer index identifier,
you’ll need to use paste_id
with that instead of private_id
.
You should see the code
field content from one row matching the
content of the page you’re preparing to delete. If it looks correct,
proceed with the deletion:
DELETE FROM pastes WHERE private_id='thisIsSomeMadeUpBlob';
That command should return a response like 1 row in set (0.001
sec)
if it was successful. Try to load the paste in your browser
again and hopefully it now says PageNot Found
instead of
returning the prior content. If all’s as intended, ^D
out of the
interactive shell and you’re done!