Richard Bishop wrote:
You are running Debian Sarge! That's been EOL and unsupported for over 2
years (March 2008). See here - http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/
Yes, I am as well - and for several good reasons.
1) If it aint broke, don't fix it. It works, has worked reliably for
several years, and was working fine yesterday. It's uptime is
currently 405 days, and then the last downtime was to physically move
the server.
2) If it aint broke - don't fix it. There's no way I'd attempt a
major upgrade in-place when it's a live server used 24*7. For various
internal reasons (which I'm sure you can guess) I don't have the
resources to do anything but an in-place upgrade if I want to upgrade.
3) I can accept that software will go out of support - but I never
expected a Miscrosoft-esque remote shutdown.
Recognising that Sarge is quite old, I have in fact got a new server
about ready to go - and I've taken the opportunity to roll in some
better features that the current live one. However, I don't have the
hardware to deploy it with yet - and I probably won't for several
months.
--
Simon Hobson
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