@MarkHenderson Or green goo from humping the pickles, but I'll remember to ask about the rash next time I'm naked in the pharmacy aisle.

Can anyone tell me how the fuck to match an Debian release version name to a fucking number?

@MarkHenderson A table.

@MichaelHampton I was hoping there would be an easier way, sigh

Oh, turns out there is; lsb_release -a

SuperUser was actually useful for something

Well this is odd, or coincidental... Same capitalization and everything:

@jscott According to an x-ref of the last-seen IP address there's a few anomolies with that account

Interesting. I was searching for one of Mark's questions, and found that account first.

It's been shared with a lot of other accounts, but most of the others seem to be legit

@ChrisS If you had asked me a few years ago I would have said that it was a reasonable cert for someone in a management like position. So a senior analyst or CISO. These days? Not really. It is starting to get used as an entry level cert for people with no security experience to get into the field.

@ChrisS I've been hearing about old CISSP holders who are seriously considering letting it lapse. There has, however, been a lot of grumbling the past year or so, and quite a bit right now with the ISC2 elections looming, to get the whole thing revamped into something useful again.

@MarkHenderson Sounds like a proxy server, maybe a large ISP or country or something

@ChrisS Like @JoelESalas said, though. It's was always designed to be a very broad base. To the best of my knowledge it was never intended to be for technical staff. That's what GIAC and the like are for. It was really intended for people who were moving into more non-technical oversight roles.

@MichaelHampton Could be yeah

So is there any way to chain do-release-upgrade commands together so I don't have to do it 5 times to go from a really old version to the latest?

I don't care if it has to step through all the updates one by one, I just don't want to get involved

copy do-release-upgrade and wrap a rubber band around the right mouse button? :)

@HopelessN00b Heh. Serves me right for leaving these machines unloved. I make sure I constantly patch and update my Windows servers but the few Linux ones I have lying around get really badly neglected

@MarkHenderson I can think of a way to do it, but it's extremely dangerous and probably will leave the machine in an unusable state. So i wouldn't even try it.

Oh, there ya go.

@MichaelHampton Thats what snapshots are for ;) Doesn't really matter this time, I'm almost done (after 4 repeats). But in 12 months time when I come back to do it again... :p

@MarkHenderson while true ; do do-release-upgrade ; done. Just let it go for a while until just keeps repeating the same thing?

@Zoredache Hey that could work if the updates don't require reboots

@MarkHenderson You shouldn't have to reboot

@MichaelHampton I had to reboot from 11.04 to 11.10

Oh god, it's Ubuntu.

See, @MichaelHampton ? You were worried about nothing. It's Ubuntu, so it's already in an unusable state. :o

@MichaelHampton Whatever, I don't get all the holy wars. It works for what I need it to do

@HopelessN00b Please share some of whatever you've been smoking.

Typo, typo. Missed the "un" in my haste to poke fun at Ubuntu.

@MarkHenderson I don' t care for apt-get very much. But Ubuntu... I can't stand the colors.

@MichaelHampton I've never seen a single colour on this server...

@MarkHenderson but you dont' have to reboot right away.

the reboot is only required for the new kernel.

Almost everything else can simply be restarted.

@Zoredache You don't? Cool. I guess I'm just used to Windows where if you don't reboot it keeps tickling you in balls until you do

Well usually you can get away with it anyway. There was a bit of an issue a few years ago when they switched to udev. If you didn't reboot, between that change then you couldn't access any devices... But I haven't seen a change that will seriously break things in a while.

@ChrisS What was your motivation for asking?