Am I the only one dealing with issue with the kernel fix for spectre and meltdown ?

All my VM excepted my BBS that for legacy reason is a 32bit Ubuntu are affected, had to boot them with a previous kernel.

I probably *should* be doing that, but I haven't. I'm just living on the edge and hoping nothing happens. I assume a fix will be coming down the pipeline
too for my distro (debian) soon

Re: 16.04 LTS (long term suff
By: naga to Ennev on Wed Jan 24 2018 10:44 pm

Am I the only one dealing with issue with the kernel fix for spectre and meltdown ?

All my VM excepted my BBS that for legacy reason is a 32bit Ubuntu are affected, had to boot them with a previous kernel.

I probably *should* be doing that, but I haven't. I'm just living on the edge and hoping nothing happens. I assume a fix will be coming down the pipeline
too for my distro (debian) soon

You should let your sysop know there's no QWK tagline on your messages. :-)

digital man

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Hello,

On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 20:41:42 -0800, Digital Man -> Naga wrote:

You should let your sysop know there's no QWK tagline on your messages.

:-)

That's odd. Seeing as though I'm looking at SCFG -> Networks -> QWK Packet Networks -> Default Tagline right now, and it's definitely there.

Just as well, SCFG -> Message Areas -> Dovenet -> Message Sub-boards -> <insert
any Dovenet sub-board here> -> Network Options -> QWK Tagline is also filled in
what what has always been there.

Append Tag/Origin line is also set to "Yes."

I haven't changed any settings here in regards to QWK networking, so was something changed in sbbsecho that may have broke the QWK tagline when gating between net types?

Regards,
Nick

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Re: 16.04 LTS (long term suff
By: Nicholas Boel to Digital Man on Thu Jan 25 2018 09:14 pm

Hello,

On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 20:41:42 -0800, Digital Man -> Naga wrote:

You should let your sysop know there's no QWK tagline on your messages.

:-)

That's odd. Seeing as though I'm looking at SCFG -> Networks -> QWK Packet Networks -> Default Tagline right now, and it's definitely there.

Just as well, SCFG -> Message Areas -> Dovenet -> Message Sub-boards -> <insert
any Dovenet sub-board here> -> Network Options -> QWK Tagline is also filled in
what what has always been there.

Append Tag/Origin line is also set to "Yes."

I haven't changed any settings here in regards to QWK networking, so was something changed in sbbsecho that may have broke the QWK tagline when gating between net types?

Are you the sysop of "ABINARY"? That's the system I was referring to.

digital man

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I probably *should* be doing that, but I haven't. I'm just living on the edge and hoping nothing happens. I assume a fix will be coming down the pipeline too for my distro (debian) soon

I'm just a compulsive updated, first thing i do in the morning is :

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean

and a sudo shutdown -r now

if required.

Is there a cure ?

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Re: Re: 16.04 LTS (long term suff
By: Ennev to naga on Fri Jan 26 2018 07:28 am

I'm just a compulsive updated, first thing i do in the morning is :

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean

and a sudo shutdown -r now

if required.

Is there a cure ?

Sure, script it and throw it in a cron. You only really need to reboot if the kernel is updated, or glibc. (and there are ways around having to reboot if you update glibc).

I do a yum update to most of my clients machines every night via cron (as almost all are on CentOS). Any errors in the update are e-mailed to me.

DaiTengu

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Sure, script it and throw it in a cron. You only really need to reboot if the kernel is updated, or glibc. (and there are ways around having to
reboot if you update glibc).

Still what to do it myself, hate to makeup to a machine locked in a loop because the update did something messy.

But less important machine I agree it's automatic.

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Re: Re: 16.04 LTS (long term suff
By: Ennev to naga on Fri Jan 26 2018 07:28 am

I probably *should* be doing that, but I haven't. I'm just living on the edge and hoping nothing happens. I assume a fix will be coming down the pipeline too for my distro (debian) soon

I'm just a compulsive updated, first thing i do in the morning is :

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean

and a sudo shutdown -r now

if required.

i'm scared i would have to reinstall.
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i'm scared i would have to reinstall.

I do take backup, but I would say after all theses years I rarely get any surprises.

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Hello,

On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 00:10:58 -0800, Digital Man -> Nicholas Boel wrote:

Are you the sysop of "ABINARY"? That's the system I was referring to.

Damnit. Sorry about that. I keep forgetting I'm not able to actually see the QWK kludges when not reading from Synchronet itself.

It was passed to me without a QWK tagline, and all I read was the origin line from my echomail gate.

Woops! ;)

Regards,
Nick

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Re: Re: 16.04 LTS (long term suff
By: Ennev to DaiTengu on Fri Jan 26 2018 02:27 pm

Sure, script it and throw it in a cron. You only really need to
reboot if the kernel is updated, or glibc. (and there are ways around
having to reboot if you update glibc).

Still what to do it myself, hate to makeup to a machine locked in a loop because the update did something messy.

apt and yum probably won't cause anything horrific to happen, unless you're running bleeding-edge custom repositories.

But less important machine I agree it's automatic.

I have a cron scheduled daily on some of the most important machines in the company I work for. Granted everything is CentOS 6 and stable as hell.

DaiTengu

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Re: Re: 16.04 LTS (long term suff
By: DaiTengu to Ennev on Fri Jan 26 2018 10:54 pm

apt and yum probably won't cause anything horrific to happen, unless you're running bleeding-edge custom repositories.

If a certain food is more yum than others, I'm more apt to eat it.

Nightfox

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Odd, I'll check my system to see why the tag line is not there. I am the
sysop of ABINARY.

Re: 16.04 LTS (long term suff
By: zharvek to Digital Man on Thu May 03 2018 09:26:00

Odd, I'll check my system to see why the tag line is not there. I am the sysop of ABINARY.

You more than likely have this area/group setup as a local message area and not a qwk networked area.

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