On Apr 16, 2010, at 4:05 AM, Simon Hobson wrote:
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Well IFF I had the skills, and IFF the server had the tools
installed, then I suppose I might be able to compile the source
(having figured out how to deal with the broken dependencies). On
the first, I don't - that's why I'm using packaged software. On the
second, I don't know - it probably doesn't have everything installed
since I don't build software on it.
What might have been a few minutes to you, is in fact a week or two
for me - building a new server, configuring it (the old configs
aren't really useful when the software has progressed over the
years), tested it fully, and then migrated all the users and their
data. That would, of course, be assuming I had the hardware to host
a new server on - which I don't.
--
Simon Hobson
Except you do not need to move all your applications, users, and data.
All you need to do is build an expensive server and have it host ONLY
email. Then your email server will be able to run clamav and your
other services will not be affected or forced to upgrade. I needed to
do this very thing for another company I worked for. We too had RH9
(other posts in this thread mention RH9) and found it to be just fine
for what we were using it for. Yes, there were no security updates and
yes we did have to make changes to the way some services were run to
keep it secure, but that was the price we were willing to pay since
upgrading did not yield any significant improvements for that server.
When we needed services that could not be provided securely by the RH9
server we built a new server to host those new services. This made for
almost zero interruption....
Jim
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