The rollback that saved the host, and killed it 24 hours later
A systemd-run rollback brought a remote Debian host back, and systemd killed the dhclient it had started. The DHCP lease ran out exactly a day later.
·4 mins
Ansible
2026
"Ansible requires blocking IO on stdin/stdout/stderr" when an AI agent runs Ansible
Every ansible-playbook run from a coding agent failed before reading the playbook, even --syntax-check. The agent shell hands Ansible non-blocking file handles; `&1 | cat` gives it blocking ones.
·4 mins
unattended-upgrades on Debian that installs nothing: Ubuntu-style Allowed-Origins
A Debian 13 server had unattended-upgrades enabled, its timers ran every day, and 61 security updates sat uninstalled. The config used Ubuntu's Allowed-Origins lines, which match the suite, and Debian's security suite is stable-security, not trixie-security.
·3 mins