Re: [CentOS] Centos 3.8 Server Questions, SeaMonkey Mozilla and Java

2016-01-11 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 01/09/2016 01:59 PM, H wrote: > But I did not ask for a current version of Centos to support my usecase, did > I? All I can tell you is that CentOS 3.(anything) is no longer secure at all. If this machine in any way touches the internet, expect that it will be hacked. You can try to

Re: [CentOS] Centos 3.8 Server Questions, SeaMonkey Mozilla and Java

2016-01-09 Thread H
That is correct, not only do I want to, I need to. Thank you for your explanation of the EPEL policy. On January 8, 2016 5:43:55 PM EST, John R Pierce wrote: >On 1/8/2016 2:21 PM, H wrote: >> That was not helpful - I explained that I had to run this version. > >you WANT to

Re: [CentOS] Centos 3.8 Server Questions, SeaMonkey Mozilla and Java

2016-01-09 Thread H
But I did not ask for a current version of Centos to support my usecase, did I? On January 9, 2016 1:04:33 PM EST, Jonathan Billings wrote: >On Jan 8, 2016, at 10:03 PM, Rob Kampen >wrote: >> welcome to the real world of 2016, there are lots of

Re: [CentOS] Centos 3.8 Server Questions, SeaMonkey Mozilla and Java

2016-01-09 Thread H
That is very similar to my usecase. Thank you. On January 8, 2016 10:03:16 PM EST, Rob Kampen wrote: >On 01/09/2016 11:43 AM, John R Pierce wrote: >> On 1/8/2016 2:21 PM, H wrote: >>> That was not helpful - I explained that I had to run this version. >> >> you WANT to

Re: [CentOS] Centos 3.8 Server Questions, SeaMonkey Mozilla and Java

2016-01-09 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Jan 8, 2016, at 10:03 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > welcome to the real world of 2016, there are lots of bespoke systems > providing real value and definitely not affordable to replace in the cut > throat world of a local ISP. This is a sad truth, but it doesn’t mean

Re: [CentOS] Centos 3.8 Server Questions, SeaMonkey Mozilla and Java

2016-01-09 Thread Ian Mortimer
On Sun, 10 Jan 2016, H wrote: That is correct, not only do I want to, I need to. It seems like RH 3.8 was around the time of Fedora Core 3-5 so you might be able to install packages from the Fedora archive: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/ Otherwise you could

Re: [CentOS] Centos 3.8 Server Questions, SeaMonkey Mozilla and Java

2016-01-09 Thread Leon Fauster
> On Sun, 10 Jan 2016, H wrote: > >> That is correct, not only do I want to, I need to. just curious, what is the specification of this requirement (need)?? -- LF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Centos 3.8 Server Questions, SeaMonkey Mozilla and Java

2016-01-09 Thread H
Thank you. I was able to resolve the problem: apparently there was some incompatibility between SeaMonkey Mozilla 1.0.9 and Java 1.4.1_09 caused by different compiler versions. I downloaded Mozilla 1.7.13 from the Mozilla website and Java 1.4.2_19 from Oracle's archive and was able to get it

[CentOS] Centos 3.8 Server Questions, SeaMonkey Mozilla and Java

2016-01-08 Thread H
In order to run a certain software package that runs as a java applet I had to install Centos 3.8 on a 32-bit server. After installation I upgraded the installation using yum after repointing the configuration file to vault.centos.org. This worked fine, however, I still have to resolve two

Re: [CentOS] Centos 3.8 Server Questions, SeaMonkey Mozilla and Java

2016-01-08 Thread Peter
On 09/01/16 10:08, H wrote: > In order to run a certain software package that runs as a java applet I had > to install Centos 3.8 on a 32-bit server. After installation I upgraded the > installation using yum after repointing the configuration file to > vault.centos.org. This worked fine,

Re: [CentOS] Centos 3.8 Server Questions, SeaMonkey Mozilla and Java

2016-01-08 Thread H
That was not helpful - I explained that I had to run this version. On January 8, 2016 5:18:36 PM EST, Peter wrote: >On 09/01/16 10:08, H wrote: >> In order to run a certain software package that runs as a java applet >I had to install Centos 3.8 on a 32-bit server. After

Re: [CentOS] Centos 3.8 Server Questions, SeaMonkey Mozilla and Java

2016-01-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 1/8/2016 2:21 PM, H wrote: That was not helpful - I explained that I had to run this version. you WANT to run something completely unsupported from about 10 years ago which apparently requires software thats known to be insecure and buggy as all heck. its 2015, not 2005, 10 years is

Re: [CentOS] Centos 3.8 Server Questions, SeaMonkey Mozilla and Java

2016-01-08 Thread Keith Keller
On 2016-01-08, H wrote: > That was not helpful - I explained that I had to run this version. That was probably partly Peter's point: you are very unlikely to get any helpful responses if you are running 3.8, and you are therefore likely on your own. That's probably not

Re: [CentOS] Centos 3.8 Server Questions, SeaMonkey Mozilla and Java

2016-01-08 Thread Rob Kampen
On 01/09/2016 11:43 AM, John R Pierce wrote: On 1/8/2016 2:21 PM, H wrote: That was not helpful - I explained that I had to run this version. you WANT to run something completely unsupported from about 10 years ago which apparently requires software thats known to be insecure and buggy as