Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

Meta
posted by martyb on Wednesday September 15 2021, @02:45PM   Printer-friendly

Late last night (~10 PM UTC), the security certificates for SoylentNews.org expired. (Out-of-date certs result in nasty warning messages being displayed by your browser.)

Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience the outage caused.

Unfortunately, that was after I (and others on staff who could do anything about it) had gone to bed.

I had personally updated the certs in the past, but the last time was years ago. (TheMightyBuzzard had previously — and subsequently — handled getting and applying updated certs.) It had been so long that I could not find my notes on the process. (Note to self: it helps to look in the correct directory tree!)

Thankfully, audioguy appeared and was able to get things updated.

Please join me in thanking him for getting things straightened out!

P.S. The current certs are due to expire December 14, 2021, Please feel free to remind us as that date approaches!

P.P.S. The technical staff is aware of various automated solutions to renewals but made a conscious decision to do them manually. Remember that people make mistakes but to really foul things up use a computer!


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 15 2021, @07:31PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 15 2021, @07:31PM (#1178079)

    Maybe better would be if the certificate also included an expiration notification URL.

    This site uses Let's Encrypt. They send at least 2 e-mails to the contact prior to expiration giving plenty of time to renew manually, if required.

  • (Score: 4, Touché) by c0lo on Thursday September 16 2021, @12:57AM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 16 2021, @12:57AM (#1178162) Journal

    The eds need to write an email-to-IRC forwarder. In a deprecated PERL version.

    --
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 16 2021, @02:09AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 16 2021, @02:09AM (#1178175)

      There are a couple of those and I’m pretty sure at least one is in Perl.