Hello everyone,

I run a few servers on Devuan, for fun, mostly.
It has come to my attention that there is such a thing as unattended-upgrades, mostly via the Ubuntu-people where it is pre-installed.

My question: Is this a good practice, to run this on my servers?
Normally I like to see what gets installed and not run anything that is not needed.

I do not run testing, just standard stuff, so that exploit of late, that affected some ssh-stuff would not have had any impact anyway.
O.t.o.h. some servers are off-site and a wrong update that somehow prevents me from logging in remotely would be quite inconvenient.

Love to see your thoughts on this.

-greetings

While Installing Mint on someone's laptop, I came across the recommendation to convert the system with USRmerge.
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Softwa … eUsrMerge/

After reading, I was left with the question: Is this some new BS or is there really some merit in this idea?

Edit:
After a little digging:
https://lwn.net/Articles/773342/
This seems to go back for more than 10 years.

And I am now left with the idea that my initial feeling is probably right.

Anyone who wants to share their thoughts on this?

Edit:
Hmm, this seems to be a controversial topic.
Please let me know if it is not ok to have it posted here.

Edit2:
https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge says:
Will switching to a merged /usr be mandatory?
In February 2021, the Technical Committee has resolved that Debian 'bookworm' should support only the merged-usr root filesystem layout, dropping support for the non-merged-usr layout.

What will happen in Devuan concerning this?

Hi all,

I take care of a (very) remote server that is still running Ascii.
Is it wise/easy/doable/difficult/unwise to remotely upgrade it to Chimaera?
(I normally do a new install, when I want to run a new version and that's it.)

The server has all the current updates.

Can I remotely upgrade directly to Chimaera or need it be upgraded to Beowulf first?

The server is more than 1000 km away and there are no technical people available there so I want to play sure as much as is possible.
I might visit there in 6 months, perhaps later. Would it be more wise to wait until then?

Hi,

I want to install Webmin (1.840) like I do on all my boxes but the setup hangs after
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** Initializing cache.
Setting up webmin (1.840) .....
nothing more after that.

Most likely it expects systemd, because I did not see this line show up during the installation process, where it does show up when I install it on Debian 8.8.

I know that Webmin used to install fine on Wheezy, and probably still does, so it should be not too hard to make this work.(?)
But I do not know all that much about Linux, but sysadmin for windows for many years does mean I can read and follow instructions.

Anyone able to give some tips or help?
That would be very much appreciated.

I really would like to be able to change all my boxes to Devuan in the near future.