Farcebook does not tell me WHICH of their policies I’ve violated, though they seem to think this is worth a 90-day ban on posting or commenting. All I was trying to do is provide some historical perspective to what is happening in Amerika today. This is an example of why I created https://friendica.eskimo.com and https://hubzilla.eskimo.com/ and why I do not censor on these.

     I may or may not do kernel upgrades Friday starting at 11PM, there are two new releases since the last but I’m waiting to see if this is stable or not.  If not will do otherwise I’m going to hold off on that until the following weekend.

     The other thing I will be doing over the weekend is upgrading openssl on various servers.  There have been security exploits found in the existing version and so far the vendors haven’t fix it but there will be a new release with it fixed and I already compile it myself on a number of servers because the vendors use old versions that don’t have all the encryption suites I want.

     The manjaro disk image resizing operation is completed.  It is back up and available.

     I am going to be taking Manjaro down for a while this afternoon.  I ran out of space during an upgrade and need to increase the size of disk image.

     After servers were rebooted, postfix did not start ont he mail server and I did not notice before I went to bed.  This affected the ability to send outgoing e-mail.

     Kernel upgrades went smoothly.  My oldest son Carl, was visiting so I didn’t post this earlier, but only had two machines not boot up properly, mxlinux and the web server, and a reboot was all it too for them.  ALL NIS bindings and NFS mounts happened correctly the first time around so it feels like these aspects of Linux are finally maturing to the point where the are reliable.

     I am going to be upgrading kernels on most of our servers starting at 11PM.  If things go smoothly we should be done by 11:30PM however the last round we had a couple of machines that had a corrupted Grub configuration that had to be fixed so it took a bit longer.

     Hubzilla has caused various grief to our web server but I’ve finally chased things down to a beta worker module that was very broken.  Installed the stable version and now it seems to be behaving.

     I messed up during last night’s backup of the web server so need to take it down again tonight, starting about 12:15AM (Mon March 8th) for about 45 minutes to make another backup.

     I will be moving Nextcloud from https://www.eskimo.com/nextcloud/ to https://nextcloud.eskimo.com/ to resolve a conflict between it and WordPress that prevents some of it’s features from working properly.

     I do not yet know the exact time and date this will happen.