First rule of computing... (especially software engineering):
If it works... DON'T try to fix it!
As a former software engineer and manager (spent first 8 years of my
career at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station writing Range Safety
real-time missile tracking code) I can tell you from experience that
this is a HARD lesson to learn!
Software updates should be applied ONLY if:
- You need the new functionality
- Your old software isn't working
- You are applying a security patch that fixes a known vulnerability
Software updates should NOT be applied if:
- The system is working fine as-is
- The only reason you want to upgrade is to be "at the latest release"
Hence, the reason my high availability servers are still based off of a
Fedora Core 5 install (lots of customization -- but that's where we
started). Could I upgrade to FC6 or Fedora7? Sure... but the "upgrades"
are primarily in the GUI -- which I don't even install on servers! If it
ain't broke (and FC5 is working great for me) then don't fix it!
Just my two-cents worth!
Dan
Daniel McAllister, President
IT4SOHO, LLC
2171 Wrens Way
Clearwater, FL 33764
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Ask me about unattended backup solutions...
to protect your business, not just your data!
Jim Shupert, Jr. wrote:
lets say.... I have a friend -
who build a QmailToaster and he created his domains NOT with the CLI
// example as understand it
// home/vpopmail/bin/vadddomain -q 15000000 testdomain.com newdomain
but rather he... used the GUI
http://mailhost.myfriendsdomain.com/mail/vqadmin/toaster.vqadmin
to create his domains ( 5 of them )
What might I advise ' my friend' to do...
come in this weekend and start over?
cross those fingers and hope for the best and watch for...what? what
would be the problem?
Note ' my firends' email server seems to be operational in all
respects and there is much happness in the kingdom.
thanks,
js
