Hi everyone,
I'm going to take the server down tonight at midnight UTC, 20:00 EDT.
It will take about an hour to image the disk in its entirety. After that
has completed, I'll upgrade the server to OpenBSD 6.6, which will only
take a few minutes. However, upon finishing the upgrade, I'll need to
spend some time upgrading the packages, recompiling some other software,
etc. I'll keep sshd down until I feel like the server is mostly usable
for everyone.
Once it comes back up and you can log back in, please mail
admins(a)tilde.institute if you find anything that's broken or otherwise
not working as expected.
I'll send a reminder email out in two hours, one hour prior to the
shutdown.
If you want to be notified as soon as you can log back in, connect to
irc.tilde.chat elsewhere and hop in #institute, where I'll announce it.
Otherwise, you can give it a shot around 02:00 UTC / 22:00 EDT maybe. No
guarantees on that.
Thanks everyone,
~gbmor
Hi everyone,
A while back it was brought to my attention that Gitbucket, the software
I was using for git repo hosting here, has a hard limit on password
length at 20 characters for users. I didn't notice because I bypassed
the public account registration. I've disabled new account creation
(looks like only a couple of accounts were created, and it was only
really used for the main site's repo anyways). I'll be looking at other
options for local git repo hosting in the meantime.
Granted, there's nothing stopping you from initializing a bare repo in
your home directory and pushing via SSH. :p
~gbmor
Hi everyone,
I updated the tilde.institute IRC node to inspircd 3.5.0 and restarted
it. Apologies for everyone who was kicked off when it went down.
~gbmor
Hi everyone,
perl 5.30.1 is now available in addition to perl 5.28.1. The binaries
are in /usr/local/bin, and their names are appended with 5.30.1, for
example:
/usr/local/bin/perl5.30.1
/usr/local/bin/cpan5.30.1
Enjoy!
~gbmor / ahriman
Hey everyone,
I'm going to be doing a reboot tomorrow (Thursday) around 13:00 UTC-5.
This is to apply some patches for a couple of critical vulnerabilities
that were discovered very recently. Apologies for the inconvenience.
~gbmor / ahriman
Hey everyone,
After the upgrade, there were some persistent networking issues. I
reverted the server to an image I had taken just before attempting the
upgrade. You shouldn't have lost any data.
Next, I need to recreate the issues on a separate server, try to then
tackle them there, and finally attempt another upgrade of prod to 6.6.
The networking issues were not present when I did a mock upgrade, oddly
enough.
~gbmor / ahriman
