i actually live near one of RedHat's offices funnily enough, i might actually do that if I'm ever drunk enough and courageous enough to shit in a mailbox in the city.
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Upgrading is the biggest crapshoot in the world. It's always better to back your shit up and just do a clean install.
Indeed. When I upgraded Mint versions once, it made my system unbootable. I forget what the problem was, but it required me to boot with a live USB to repair the system. In the end I got it to work, but if you don't like dealing with upgrading/reinstalling fixed releases then a rolling release distro is better for you.
for such a user friendly distro, you'd think they'd test it to make sure that upgrading works.
I always do a fresh install for every major LTS version. It helps keep stuff organized too.
It was actually due to something I had changed myself. I forget what it was, but most people shouldn't have the problem. My point was more that upgrade tools like that sometimes don't take all the edge cases into account.
Which is why I like simpler distros and package managers like the system Arch uses. They usually don't mess with major configurations because they barely configure things for you to begin with. But that comes with its own problems, I like to micromanage my setup so that works for me but it's understandably a little hard to keep things predictable with a distro for beginners.
import re
import requests
from requests.adapters import HTTPAdapter
from urllib3.util.retry import Retry
with open('invalid_users') as f:
lines = f.readlines()
for line in lines:
m = re.search(r'Invalid user (?P<username>[^\s]+) from (?P<ip_address>[^\s]+)', line)
ip_address = m.group('ip_address')
session = requests.Session()
retry = Retry(connect=3, backoff_factor=0.5)
adapter = HTTPAdapter(max_retries=retry)
session.mount('http://', adapter)
session.mount('https://', adapter)
response = session.get(f'https://geolocation-db.com/json/{ip_address}&position=true').json()
print(response.get('country_name'))invalid_users is a file that I made on my Digital Ocean Droplet from concatenating all the /var/log/auth* files and selecting first only the lines that contain "sshd" and then in a second round that go "Invalid user blahblahblah". You can easily achieve the same outcome with cat and grep but may have to alter or get rid of a few lines where the username is blank or contains whitespace. You might ask why I didn't use the username capture and didn't just get the IP addresses. I might analyze those in the future. Right now I'm just concerned with where these requests are coming from. There are a lot of the usual suspects (e.g. India, Huezil) but I'm even seeing a few surprises like some nigger from Angola that just went by on the terminal.
These are just computing devices that weren't secure (i.e. 95% of consumer routers). That Angolan IP is probably the one that 10,000 niggers running Windows XP are on beyond some kind of shitty carrier-grade NAT. As @AmpleApricots says, if you don't want to see the fuzz, change the port to something non-default, at least 10,000+, better yet 49,000+, and install fail2ban if you want to see it cleaned up automatically.
Doesn't Arch effectily force you to either manually compile your apps or to solely use their repository and only their repository? It seems like upgrading your OS is the one thing it won't have issues with.
I appreciate the info but password authentication on SSH is disabled and it's amusing to watch all these unswell faggots try to pwn me and fail
You could use extra repositories in theory but with Arch it becomes impossible because it's a rolling release distro which is unstable by definition. The packages are continuously updated so it becomes risky to try using packages of other repositories.
I've never used Arch or derivatives but your post reminded me of experimenting a bit with FreeBSD and its Ports system. I am not passing judgment on FreeBSD in general but I came away with the opinion that Ports blows and it appears others much better acquainted with said OS often have similar attitudes, e.g.:
Yes/no.
This is true for many system components, but in most cases the binary incompatibility is not going to be that bad. I can use the same build of Trinity desktop from 2+ months ago with the latest kernel and icu and it will run just fine.
Either way if a program needs specific library versions one can use patchelf to set the appropriate interpreter then include the appropriate shared libraries. Mind you, this is mostly for closed source programs that expect to find a very specific environment like Ubuntu 22.04 for example.
Its literally no different than any other linux distro. It has a big repo with a bunch of stuff you can use, or you can use flatpaks snaps or appimages if you want also.