hey, could you point me to that security patch? I am curious as I am myself running bunch of linux boxes
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Greg Grossmeier <[email protected]> wrote: > This past week there was an important security release for the Linux > kernel. As such, we will be updating and rebooting ALL of our machines > ASAP. > > This may affect you. > > ALL WMF services will experience some downtime of up to 10 or so minutes > (including Bugzilla, Gerrit, etc). > > == SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS == > > Some machines are OK for us to just reboot as needed but others are > being utilized by others for various tasks (scripts, cronjobs, etc). > > If you have jobs running on any machine that you do not have puppetized > (ie: it won't just magically start up again after a reboot) you will > want to restart your jobs after the reboot. > > There is, unfortunately, not set schedule of when any particular machine > will be rebooted, but Ops will be giving ~30 minutes notice in the > #wikimedia-operations IRC channel on Freenode. You can watch the public > Server Admin Log at <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Server_admin_log> > for the warnings and the reboot notice. > > Sorry for the invonvenience, > > Greg > > -- > | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | > | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
