G.W. Haywood wanted us to know: >And you're not nervous about running a Linux distro that old? >That would make *me* very nervous. >Do _everyone_ a favour and install a more recent distro.
Old distros are ok under controlled circumstances. 1) Firewall all listening ports to the Internet except the one or two that are Internet facing (port 80 and 25 are common). Use source for the apps that are serving those ports instead of distro supplied apps. 2) App is sitting behind a reverse proxy with a private IP. Use source for the apps that are serving those ports instead of the distro supplied apps. There's a pattern there. Discerning sysadmins will see it. Disclaimer: I'm not advocating it. I'm simply agreeing there are scenarios where it's more disruptive to upgrade the OS (breaks homegrown apps) than to just upgrade the individual apps and rely on other methods of insulating the OS from the "big bad mean world". -- Regards... Todd OS X: We've been fighting the "It's a mac" syndrome with upper management for years now. Lately we've taken to just referring to new mac installations as "Unix" installations when presenting proposals and updates. For some reason, they have no problem with that. -- /. Linux kernel 2.6.12-12mdksmp 2 users, load average: 0.03, 0.05, 0.09 _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
