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posted by martyb on Thursday March 14 2019, @02:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the certs-are-not-just-a-breath-mint dept.

With many thanks to The Mighty Buzzard riding shotgun and helping me through some misunderstandings, I updated the certificates (certs) for all of SoylentNews' domains. Our certs are now good through: Wednesday, June 12, 2019.

Everything seemed to go as expected. If you experience any issues, please mention them here, or pop onto our IRC channel using your favorite client or the web interface and speak up in the #dev or #Soylent channel.


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  • (Score: 2) by martyb on Thursday March 14 2019, @05:04PM (2 children)

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 14 2019, @05:04PM (#814300) Journal

    As this was my very first time ever updating certs, that just might have been a factor. I have a high-level concept of DNS and certs, but actually messing around with actual files and their syntax... let's just say I was very cautious.

    A long time ago I came upon some words of wisdom that have served me well:

    Strive to understand your problem;
      Do not try to solve it.
    A fully stated problem
      embodies its solution.

    I knew I did not understand, so I took my time as I went. Here's another:

    The longest distance between two points is a shortcut.

    Until it is absolutely clear what ALL the success -- and failure -- paths are, my experience has been that it is best to keep a human in the loop.

    For further details on possible additional automation I will have to defer to the others on staff who have way more experience with this than I do.

    --
    Wit is intellect, dancing.
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  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Thursday March 14 2019, @05:22PM

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Thursday March 14 2019, @05:22PM (#814318) Homepage Journal

    Until it is absolutely clear what ALL the success -- and failure -- paths are, my experience has been that it is best to keep a human in the loop.

    For further details on possible additional automation I will have to defer to the others on staff who have way more experience with this than I do.

    As the wonderful G.B. Shaw said:

    The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

    I try to be unreasonable. :)

    --
    No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 15 2019, @03:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 15 2019, @03:02AM (#814625)

    This demonstrates the attitude of a good sys admin.

    https://xkcd.com/705/ [xkcd.com]