From 8a7dce43bef4d5b1fcced5d89a428f2a4229f16c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Harris Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 03:42:56 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] 20.04 update notice --- news/pages/030_ubuntu20.04.md | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+) create mode 100644 news/pages/030_ubuntu20.04.md diff --git a/news/pages/030_ubuntu20.04.md b/news/pages/030_ubuntu20.04.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2580544 --- /dev/null +++ b/news/pages/030_ubuntu20.04.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +--- +published: true +date: august 4 2020 +title: "ubuntu 20.04 upgrades" +author: ben +--- + +i've been preparing a large upgrade for tilde.team to ubuntu 20.04 focal fossa. + +the new vm has a fresh install and will help to address some of the long-standing +issues that i've been wanting to fix for quite some time now + +--- + +- dedicated /home disk - we haven't had any actual issues here luckily + but it will prevent any issues where a user accidentally fills a disk + and chokes out the rest of the system + +- fixing uids - at some point, the spamassassin package created a system + user account with a uid > 1000 which threw off the user numbering into + the 5000 range. i've renumbered user accounts on the new vm to remove + that large jump + +- dedicated service accounts - each service now has its own account in `/srv` + which is importantly outside of `/home` and is not a single user running multiple + services as it was configured previously + +the ip address is the same and everything should be as you left it. please let me +know on irc or shoot an email if something is amiss. + +i have an ongoing list [here](/~ben/todo.txt) that i will update as i get things +back up and running. + +another important note: python is now 3.8 by default and you will need to +explicitly call python2. all local site- and dist-packages have been removed +since they were targeting 3.6. you will need to recreate any virtual envs +that you may have. + +cheers, +~ben