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Journeyman Geek

00:14

@Bob sure

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Feeds

01:57

Bob has made a change to the feeds posted into this room

Bob

For the record, I changed it from http://blog.stackoverflow.com/feed/ to https://stackoverflow.blog/tags/community,company,stackexchange,survey/feed

Journeyman Geek

02:12

@Bob pity we can't rename it

Bob

Not entirely sure where it gets the name

maybe somewhere from the feed metadata?

Journeyman Geek

Naw

its added on creation but can't be edited

Bob

...huh

Feeds

Bob has made a change to the feeds posted into this room

Bob

I ... have no idea what that just did

Feeds

02:14

Bob has made a change to the feeds posted into this room

Bob has stopped a feed from being posted into this room

Bob has made a change to the feeds posted into this room

Bob

Hm.

I may have just accidentally removed it :D

re-added but it's Feeds user for now

@JourneymanGeek can you change the user?

Journeyman Geek

Is ok :D

Bob

can't remember if the user was a mod or CM thing

Journeyman Geek

Should be mod

I have the botton but it does nothing ._.

Bob

though I kinda doubt a CM went and did the XKCD and Luke's blog so :P

Do you have to make a new user/name or can you point it to an existing one?

Journeyman Geek

02:16

Ah, it creates the user

I can rename/set a ava

renamed it "Not Informat"

Bob

but can't point it to old blogbot?

Journeyman Geek

Needs a SO ava but I'll do that later

Bob

interesting

Journeyman Geek

I've renamed it Not Informat :D

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rahuldottech

06:25

Q: How do you guys keep up with the latest releases and security patches of the software on systems you administer?

Eg: Apache, PHP, etc.

Hm, PHP appears to have an RSS feed, but Apache doesn't

Bob

06:39

@rahuldottech There's usually a security mailing list. From the distro if nothing else.

rahuldottech

(I'm on Windows, lol)

But yeah, I'll look up security mailing lists for the projects

Journeyman Geek

06:55

@rahuldottech I just go with repos and the latest available version

rahuldottech

How often do you check/update?

Journeyman Geek

hmm

>_>

the main server? When I remember

rahuldottech

lol

Journeyman Geek

but I usually have unattended updates on

rahuldottech

I proooobably can't/shouldn't? do that with mission critical PHP+Apache

In case stuff breaks

Journeyman Geek

06:57

Nothing is unfixably mission critical

as long as you have data and config files backed up, you're probably safe

rahuldottech

I mean, I should test on my dev server before updating, right?

Instead of auto-updating it

Journeyman Geek

uhm

anything on a repo is "older" but usually fairly well tested

rahuldottech

Yeah, but code and config isn't always forward compatible

So although it'll prooooobably work just fine on newer versions, there's a tiiiny chance it won't

Journeyman Geek

._.

@rahuldottech the whole point of the official repo is they stick to versions they know work

so you might even have older versions cause upgrading may break stuff, with fixes backported

rahulatschool

Hmm.

Journeyman Geek

07:03

SO, typically packages don't come with a config file

they come with an example config file you copy, and edit

so lets say there's a major change and things break, a well designed update script shouldn't overwrite it

What I tend to do is before doing a breaking change, or once I have something working, save a copy, say foo.config.failsafe so if things break, I can put that back

same thing works in most cases

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