Brian Utterback wrote: > Ulrich Windl wrote: >> Brian Utterback <[email protected]> writes: > >>> Really, why are you using Solaris 8? Use OpenSolaris. It comes with NTP >>> 4.2.5p172 already installed and fully supported. >> >> Really? I just saw Solaris 10 with ntp 3.5.93e (FAIR), but Sun tried >> hard to hide the version string. >> >> Ulrich > > OpenSolaris (/dev) has 4.2.5 today. The current OpenSolaris released > version (/release) has the older xntpd 3.5.93e, but will get the newer > one when /dev rolls into /release in a couple of months. All Solaris > versions from Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 10 have the 3.5.9e NTP, but Solaris > 10 Update 8 (scheduled for release in two months) will have both xntpd > 3.5.9e and ntpd 4.2.5 co-existing (but not both configured. One or the > other please!) > > But the comment still stands. Solaris 8 is at End of Support Life. > Nobody should deploy anything new on it, and should seriously consider > moving to something much newer. Consider that Solaris 8 will have no > new security patches made available for it. (At least not for free. > There are some customers willing to pay a premium for continued support.) > > Brian.
Some shops have make a massive effort to upgrade. I can recall a major upgrade of another O/S that consumed 3,000 man hours in building test systems, installing and testing the new O/S and the latest versions of everything. The system was business critical and had to be available each and every business day. Saturday morning we broke all the mirror sets, installed the new software and tested it AGAIN. 8:00AM Monday morning arrived faithfully with the new version up and running. In early afternoon we felt secure enough with the new software that we resilvered the mirrors and committed ourselves! If things had gone wrong we would have booted using the untouched halves of the mirror sets and been back where we started. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
