Bugger, I was using the scheduled reboot to get all the recent Ubuntu
updates applied. Will have to do it myself now :(
Kind regards
Murray Crane
On 7 August 2018 at 20:04, Keith Williams <keithwilliamsnp@???> wrote:
> Good news. That's saved you a lot of work, anyway
>
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 at 03:01, Andy Smith <andy@???> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> This is slightly embarrassing but you will hopefully be pleased to
>> know that BitFolk is not actually affected by the security issue
>> that prompted the scheduling of the maintenance described below.
>> Therefore it won't be going ahead.
>>
>> Apologies for the confusion. I misread the advisory. I can't give
>> any more details as to what I misread as it's currently under
>> embargo but when the full advisory is posted next Tuesday it will be
>> clear.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andy
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 07:03:45PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I'm afraid there's another round of security updates needed as a
>> > flaw has been discovered in some (Xen-specific) parts of the Linux
>> > kernel.
>> >
>> > It's not the hypervisor this time but it still needs a kernel
>> > upgrade on our side so the effect is basically the same, so there
>> > will be another reboot of all servers, likely in the early hours (UK
>> > time) of 11–13 August.
>> >
>> > Customers will soon receive an individual email confirming the
>> > hour-long maintenance window specific to their server(s). The actual
>> > work is expected to take 10–30 minutes within that window.
>> >
>> > As before we should be able to do a suspend/restore if you have
>> > enabled that at:
>> >
>> > <https://panel.bitfolk.com/account/config/>
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Andy
>> >
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