Server OS and software updates

[Jim]

Doing a quick OS update, should be very minor with only a couple minutes of downtime, if that.

[Jim]

Doing a quick OS update, should be very minor with only a couple minutes of downtime, if that.

Finishing it up with what I hope is a quick reboot this morning.  Let me know if you notice any problems after about 10:40 EDT.

[Jim]

Sorry for the short notice, but this afternoon (8/15/2024) is a good opportunity for me to apply some security updates on the TM/METAL server.  I expect just a brief outage or two when reboots might be required.

[Jim]

Sorry for the short notice, but this afternoon (8/15/2024) is a good opportunity for me to apply some security updates on the TM/METAL server.  I expect just a brief outage or two when reboots might be required.

Updates are installed and the server has been rebooted.  While I was in, I updated all of the software, not just the OS.  Best I can tell, everything continues to work properly.  Let me know if you encounter any problems.

[Jim]

Operating System and software updates are planned to take place on the TM server on Tuesday, January 14.  Expect occasional interruptions and brief down times.  More lengthy outages are possible but not expected.

[Jim]

Operating System and software updates are planned to take place on the TM server on Tuesday, January 14.  Expect occasional interruptions and brief down times.  More lengthy outages are possible but not expected.

Just starting now.  I expect at least two reboots.  Hopefully the upgrades don't break anything that will take extra work to fix up.

[Jim]

Today's upgrades are done.  Things look good to me.  Let me know if anything looks broken.

[Jim]

Time permitting, I hope to apply some security updates to the server this afternoon, Wednesday 4/16, after 2 PM EDT.  It will involve one or two reboots taking the server down for a few minutes at a time.  Of course, things could always go bad and downtimes could become longer.

[Jim]

Time permitting, I hope to apply some security updates to the server this afternoon, Wednesday 4/16, after 2 PM EDT.  It will involve one or two reboots taking the server down for a few minutes at a time.  Of course, things could always go bad and downtimes could become longer.

The updates have been applied, and it looks to me like all is well.  Let me know if you notice any problems.

[Jim]

The TM/METAL server is due for an upgrade to the next major version (from 13.x to 14.x) of FreeBSD.  I am tentatively planning to do this on Tuesday, June 10.  I hope this will be nearly unnoticeable to TM and METAL users and contributors, with just a few brief outages as the server reboots.  However, with any major upgrade there is a higher chance that something breaks and a more lengthy downtime could result.

Also a reminder that in the event of any downtime that keeps TM and the forum offline for any significant amount of time, I will post status updates at https://travelmapping.github.io/

[Jim]

At the moment we are go for launch on the Tuesday OS upgrade.  I'm starting on some downloads tonight but I am not planning to do anything that could result in downtime until I get to work in the morning.

[Jim]

I split the discussion of the problems encountered and my fixes into their own thread.

https://forum.travelmapping.net/index.php?topic=6974.0

[Jim]

There are a few minor security updates that I should apply to the TM/METAL server.  I plan to do so tomorrow, 7/10, when I am on site and whenever my time permits.  Expect one or two outages lasting 5 minutes or less, with the small but nonzero chance for longer downtime if anything goes wrong.

[Jim]

There are a few minor security updates that I should apply to the TM/METAL server.  I plan to do so tomorrow, 7/10, when I am on site and whenever my time permits.  Expect one or two outages lasting 5 minutes or less, with the small but nonzero chance for longer downtime if anything goes wrong.

Done.  Let me know if anything looks broken.