On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 3:48 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, July 5, 2012 15:29, [email protected] wrote: >> Please ignore my previous message. Here is the updated one: >> >> Thank you for the info, Paul. It's very helpful. But one thing I don't >> understand well, that is: RHEL 4 is in its Extended Life Phase and Product >> Life Cycle that will be ended by February 28, 2015 >> (https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/). Why do you say >> "RHEL 4 and all of its derivatives are EOL (End of Life) don't expect any >> thing to support it any more"? Would you please explain it further? Thank >> you! >> > > If you have the paid extended support add-on, you can get _some_ security > errata for RHEL4 through 2/28/2015. Otherwise, Paul is correct. > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
Essentially the extended life support is only intended for legacy systems which wouldn't be cost and or time effective to update because you plan on completely replacing them within the 3 year time frame any way. While you do still get critical security updates during the extended life phase you still would not pass a security audit without having an explicit plan including dates for when those systems were planed to be retired or replaced. No new software versions or addons should support RHEL 4 any more, and no one should be using RHEL 4, CentOS 4, or Scientific Linux 4 for new installs. If you have any thing running on RHEL 4 you should plan to replace, retire, or update to RHEL 6 it as soon as possible. _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
