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Date: 2014-10-30 08:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com
The drupal install was not my responsibility. I had no part in patching or security or monitoring.

Today, this has changed, because the guy who was supposed to be doing it wasn't even monitoring the "fuck, patch NOW" mailing list.

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Date: 2014-10-30 09:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pappy-legba.livejournal.com
Yeah... no one needs to follow the security mailing list until suddenly they absolutely need to.

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Date: 2014-10-30 09:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pappy-legba.livejournal.com
...and I hope he at least had drush installed already.

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Date: 2014-10-30 09:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com
I don't know what that is.

At the moment I'm arranging a clean machine so a clean copy of the site can be uploaded, then have the most recent content re-added, then go live. Little details like "what modules" are so not on my radar: The new site will have the same modules the old one did, restored from a trusted backup. Anything else is Not My Problem at the moment.

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Date: 2014-10-30 09:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pappy-legba.livejournal.com
Right. Just get it working.

Drush is a command-line utility for managing drupal sites. It lets you download modules, update core, run database updates, sync the DB, and a bunch of other stuff straight from the command line. If this is a one-time gig for you then it's probably not worth worrying about. If you have to do these things remotely often, it might be worth looking into.

For instance, when you don't have a security hot potato, you can update the site to all the latest code with

>drush up

...which updates core and contributed modules all at once, runs the DB update script, and clears the caches. If you only want security fixes:

>drush up --security-only

(well, not that simple. The right way to do it is backup filesystem and the DB then do those command. Drush also has backup options, of course.)

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Date: 2014-10-30 10:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com
Still. Sounds useful.

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