Hey Everyone,
I've run into a bit of a snag with the upgrade.
It appears that, with the current partition layout
and disk size, there isn't enough space to do
an in-place upgrade.
This brings to the forefront another issue that
I knew would come up eventually: the need to move
tilde.institute to a new server.
This started out as a very tiny project that has
grown faster than I initially expected. The
current server is a bit underpowered and its disk
space is insufficient for the current utilization
level and growth trends.
It's a good thing, in my opinion. It means more
people than I initially thought find this concept
appealing and this space useful. I'm so glad
everyone is taking part in this project.
Kneezle and myself will come up with a plan to
migrate tilde.institute, both to a new server and
to OpenBSD 6.5, in a way that will minimize
downtime or service disruptions. Then, one of us
will send an email notification out with a timeline.
:)
~ahriman
Hi folks !
I was thinking about writing some documentation about email (and maybe
more) encryption using GnuPG. The target would be not-so-techy tilde
users. And the objective would be that anybody can use public key
encryption if they want to with minimal hassle.
I would like to know what people use for handling email, as I've been
using mutt for so long I don't really know what other folks do.
Please answer to this post (I'll publish it also on bbj and maybe
tilde.news) with your combo of OS/email agent or simply with a "not
interested".
That way I'll have an idea of what config examples to include on the
docs or that perhaps there's no interest at all in this and I can use my
time on other stuff ...
That's it, please take a couple of minutes to answer this ;-)
Have a nice day !
--
Paco Esteban.
GnuPG key: https://onna.be/44CA735E.asc
Hey everyone!
Initially, I'd put the 6.5 upgrade on the back-burner
because of the recurrent inspIRCd issues. I didn't
want to cause any more service disruptions too soon
after the v2->v3 move.
I'm going to be upgrading a test environment, smoothing
out the kinks, then upgrading the production tilde.institute
server. My plan is to do the production upgrade on
Monday, 11 June, 2019, around 22:00 US Eastern Time,
which is 2:00 AM UTC, Tuesday, 12 June, 2019.
If anything changes, I'll send out another email. I'll
also send out at least one reminder email in between now
and Monday, and a warning email about an hour before
I begin the upgrade.
Let me know if you have any questions!
~ahriman
Hi,
I've been using the native mail(1) MUA on tilde.institute. It
would be nice to have 's-nail' installed as an updated version
of mail(1). Also, is there any plans to mail email available
via imap/imaps ? That would be my preference though I understand
that adds an extra load on the sysadmins WRT security and maint.
Cheers,
Jeff
Hello everyone!
I know some of you like looking at pretty
graphs and numbers, like I do, so I've
installed /usr/local/bin/gotop
It's a top derivative that is even prettier
than the venerable standby htop.
~ahriman
Hey everyone,
I ended up moving the IRC daemon to its own server.
Hopefully that's the end of the issues with inspircd-3.0.0.
I apologize for the tumultuous IRC connection these
last couple of days.
If you've specified the connection by hostname, eg
institute.tilde.chat, then it should still work
as soon as I can get the A-record updated.
Everything should be A-OK by the end of the night.
Let me know if you're still having issues after
about 12 to 24 hours have passed.
Thanks,
~ahriman
Hey everyone,
I've upgraded GCC/G++ from 4.2.1-20070719 to
8.3.0. If, for some reason, you still need
gcc/g++ 4.2.1, they will be available as:
/usr/bin/gcc4
/usr/bin/g++4
While 'gcc' and 'g++' have been linked to
the version 8 binaries.
Enjoy!
~ahriman
Hey everyone,
I'm having some issues with the irc daemon after
the tildeverse network moved to inspircd v3.0.0.
I'm currently working on it, so it should be
resolved soon.
Thanks for your patience
~ahriman
