On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:11:12PM -0700, Darren Patterson wrote:
> 
> On Apr 9, 2009, at 12:49 AM, Kaj Niemi wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >On Apr 8, 2009, at 17:20, Andy Kannberg wrote:
> >
> >>Does anyone know which version of Apache and Tomcat are available 
> >>from the standard Red Hat repository ?
> >>Are there other repositories which offer newer RPM packages for 
> >>Apache and Tomcat ?
> >
> >
> >RHEL5(.3) has tomcat 5.5.23 and apache 2.2.3. That being said, there's 
> >always JPackage as a source of java stuff. I'm not sure how well it 
> >interoperates nowadays with RHEL5 (as RHEL5 java packages have been 
> >gcjd and there might be a dependency for the library in native format) 
> >but it works great on RHEL4. If you're unhappy with either you can 
> >always roll your own and contribute. :)
> 
> I would strongly advise people to look at the tomcat security 
> vulnerabilities (http://tomcat.apache.org/security.html) and reference 
> that against the version of tomcat that JPackage provides.   The JPP 5.0 
> provided tomcat6-6.0.14 is quite old and has many CVEs including 
> elevated privs, information disclosure and data integrity 
> vulnerabilities.  I certainly wouldn't consider using this in 
> production.  The JPP 1.7 provided tomcat5 (RHEL4) is even worse in my 
> opinion.

Whenever I try to get some help with Tomcat / Java issues on RHEL, I
always have to hear about how ancient and out-of-date their packages are
and how I really ought to update.

I'm recommending that we stop paying RedHat and go with CentOS, so at
least when I break the paradigm we don't lose the $$$.

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