[tor-relays] OS Upgrade

[Eddie]

On 4/23/2021 11:50 AM, The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510] wrote:
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Friday, April 23, 2021 2:01 AM, <kathihil935 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>   Ubuntu 20.4 on my Digital Ocean droplet needs to be upgraded.
>>
>>   Can the upgrade be done without shutting down the relay. I
>>   currently have six flags and don't want to loose them. How
>>   is the upgrade done on a relay that is in operation?
> Yes, it can.  I've done it several times on D-O- (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to
> Ubuntu 20.04 LTS).  Use Digital Ocean's dist-upgrade and distro-upgrade docs and you should
> be okay.  Take your time, there's no rush.

And you're left with programs running on a back-level version of libc 
and a very out-of-date kernel.

>
> Just be sure to back up your tor config file and contents of /var/lib/tor, just in case
> something goes pear-shaped.
>
> The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510]
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