Manjaro website off-line again due to lapsed certificate
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Manjaro website off-line again due to lapsed certificate
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Re: Manjaro website off-line again due to lapsed certificate
#2not the first time, I stopped using manjaro when I noticed ping.manjaro.org was being pinged every 30 seconds on a new router I setup. nothanks on that.
but seriously, sudo crontab -e, @monthly cerbot renew
No excuses.
Re: Manjaro website off-line again due to lapsed certificate
#3Oops, it's back now though...
Re: Manjaro website off-line again due to lapsed certificate
#4I used Manjaro for a few years.
That's how I learned a pretty important lesson about software engineering that still informs how I work to this day.
"A layer of abstraction on top of a stateful legacy system often doesn't result in a simpler system, it just introduces exciting new failure possibilities. This especially applies when the owners of the legacy system have no responsibility over the abstraction layer."
Re: Manjaro website off-line again due to lapsed certificate
#5I used Manjaro for a few years. That's how I learned a pretty important lesson about software engineering that still informs how I work to this day. "A layer of abstraction on top of a stateful legacy system often doesn't result in a simpler system, it just introduces exciting new failure possibilities. This especially applies when the owners of the legacy system have no responsibility over the abstraction layer."
This comment made a lot more sense to me once I realized we weren't talking about an aggressively marketed weight loss drug.
Re: Manjaro website off-line again due to lapsed certificate
#6A lot of repositories and similar go offline randomly. It hasn't happened in a few months but usually the Microsoft package mirrors go past their Azure limits and I get reminders.
Re: Manjaro website off-line again due to lapsed certificate
#7not the first time, I stopped using manjaro when I noticed ping.manjaro.org was being pinged every 30 seconds on a new router I setup. nothanks on that. but seriously, sudo crontab -e, @monthly cerbot renew No excuses.
It's not uncommon for a Distro to point NetworkManager or whoever to check for connectivity using their own servers, Arch does it themselves[0].
[0] ping.archlinux.org
Re: Manjaro website off-line again due to lapsed certificate
#8At this point we have to assume they're doing it for attention. I refuse to believe a team of people that can ship an OS, even if it's just a riced Arch, cannot figure out acme.sh. Come on...
Re: Manjaro website off-line again due to lapsed certificate
#9I love Manjaro too much, use it as daily distro but their certificate issues and its recursive behaviour threaten me a little bit.
Re: Manjaro website off-line again due to lapsed certificate
#10Just use Caddy. It's that simple.