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Kernel Upgrades Completed


It was not a clean upgrade. Grub got corrupted on one machine, one server didn't properly export the exports until I manually restarted the nfs server. There were quite a few broken NFS mounts. So, some things were back up at 11:16, and the broken systems were gradually restored with restoration completed at 12:07.

friendica.eskimo.com/ and hubzilla.eskimo.com/ are back up and operational. Actually this was one of the things operational at 11:16.

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Kernel Upgrades


I plan to upgrade kernels on all the servers tonight starting at 11PM Pacific Daylight Time. Upgrades should be concluded by midnight. This will result in outages lasting 10-20 minutes for each physical server and perhaps another ten minutes for virtual machines on that server depending upon whether NFS and NIS properly bind after reboots or not.

This will affect friendica.eskimo.com/ and hubzilla.eskimo.com/

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Eskimo North Fediverse Nodes and Hosting


If you are getting tired of being Fact Checked, Moderated, Banned from Posting or Commenting, having your pictures hid because well they actually show truth, I'd like to invite you once again to my social media platforms:

friendica.eskimo.com/
hubzilla.eskimo.com/

Anything legal goes. Both of these are nodes on the fediverse
federated network. There are about 4 million users on the network at present.

And if you wish to host your own website, blog, social media site, or other project and know that you won't be victim of cancel culture, check out our hosting:

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friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Mint 20.1 Synaptic Fuxored


Mint has at least for the past decade disabled the Mark Updates function of synaptic package manager but until 20.x it was easy to re-enable by removing one of Mint's conf files. Now that file no longer exists and I have not been able to find out how to re-enable this functionality. Can anyone tell me? Yes I realize Mint is trying to force me to use their update function, I prefer to not do so.

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OpenSSL and Kernel Upgrades


OpenSSL and kernel upgrades will effect friendica.eskimo.com/ and hubzilla.eskimo.com/.

I do not normally do kernel updates mid-week, I prefer to wait until Friday on the off chance something goes horribly wrong, to provide the most time to recover before the business week.

However, a serious vulnerability has been discovered in openssl and I'm going to have to reboot all the machines just to get any old copies of openssl out of memory so might as well do a kernel upgrade at the same time.

Most machines will remain on openssl 1.1.1f but it will be a patched version that fixes the exploit. The webserver with any luck will be on openssl 1.1.1k, this is just because it's already on a self-compiled version of openssl to get the most current encryptions.

Normally I would start this at 11pm Pacific Daylight Time, but because of the seriousness of this exploit, I am going to proceed as soon as I have the current software in place on all the machines but some time after 5PM PDT. The downtime for the entire system should be less than 1/2 hour and any given machine not more than about ten minutes.