I have had similar challenges with the system last year like trying to
up grade curl after serious security issues have also given up on the
system basically - but there are some big/important put very patched-up
legacy webapps custom developed for clients that have stayed behind on
the box after we moved the bulk of our clients onto a new Gentoo box -
one of the websites is eventmanagement enquiry/booking/search site with
a mysql db and perl cgi backend written in the 90's (and badly so I
might add - whole tables are quiried without where clauses and then
processed in perl!!!)

-----Original Message-----
From: kashani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 9:00 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] portscanning worm?

Andrew Kesterson wrote:
>     Sure! See that RJ-45 jack going into the back of it? Unplug that.
:-D
> 
>     Seriously though, RH 7 is only, what, 4 or 5 years old? It
shouldn't 
> be that hard to do, as far as this is concerned. Most things that
could 
> be done on a current gentoo box could still be done on that older RH7 
> box, even if it does take a little tweaking.

Supporting 7.3 a gigantic pain in the ass... for web services at least. 
php 4.1.x IIRC. Trying to get 4.3 with xml/sablotron was brutal. We gave

up updating last year and forced an upgrade to ES 4.0 on the devs.

kashani

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