board.net-maintenance.md

@@ -4,7 +4,27 @@ As Pads are used anonymously we do not apply any roles, so we can not allow some
 
 If you want to have a pad deleted please write a message to support@fairkom.eu
 
-As a sysadmin we do
+As a sysadmin we have some tools:
+
+## API call
+
+We can delete a board by API call 
+
+       https://board.net/api/1/deletePad?apikey=secret12345&padID=Myseminar-B3S
+
+or preferred is directly on heu2 so that key is not exposed:
+
+         curl "https://board.net/api/1/deletePad?apikey=secret029b3f1&padID=Myseminar-B3S"
+
+Admins: see https://etherpad.org/doc/latest/#index_http_api get how to  secret logged in the server from `cat /opt/etherpad-lite/APIKEY.txt` or from keepass. 
+
+If we only know the read only link, we need to get the PadID first:  
+
+       "https://board.net/api/1.2.14/getPadID?apikey=apikey...&roID=r.dcaf13c86f0df1fbb3627394515087c3"
+
+## delete script
+
+(not reliable working on our large instance)
 
 ```
 su etherpad
@@ -13,14 +33,10 @@ node bin/checkPad.js test
 node bin/deletePad.js test
 ```
 
-The adminpads2 plugin is too slow see https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/issues/2899#issuecomment-779611308
+## adminpads2 plugin 
 
-Or we delete by API call see https://etherpad.org/doc/latest/#index_http_api get secret from `cat /opt/etherpad-lite/APIKEY.txt` and do (ideally on heu2 host itself so that key is not exposed):
+This is too slow see https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/issues/2899#issuecomment-779611308
 
-         curl "https://board.net/api/1/deletePad?apikey=secret029b3f1&padID=Myseminar-B3S"
-
-If we only know the read only link, we need to get the PadID first:  
-
-       "https://board.net/api/1.2.14/getPadID?apikey=apikey...&roID=r.dcaf13c86f0df1fbb3627394515087c3"
+## donation
 
 If you requested a board for deletion, we welcome your donation to cover expenses to run the board.net service and for personal support: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5TQ33F5GUFLLE
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