You have good points here - of course upgrading is always the goal. Dirce
> > > Am 20.04.2012 15:44, schrieb Paul J Stevens: >> On 04/20/2012 03:30 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >>> >>> >>> Am 20.04.2012 15:22, schrieb drsyst...@globalcerts.net: >>>> Thank you very much. I will try to upgrade gmime on the Fedora 8, or >>>> make >>>> a case to upgrade the customer to our newest release. >>> >>> don't get me wrong but who in the world is running Fedora 8 >>> in production while the latest supported version is F15? >>> >>> this are 7 releases and so a minium of THREE YEARS >>> without any security or bugfix update! >> >> So? If it ain't broken, don't fix it. >> >> I still run ubuntu/hardy and even some debian/etch VPS and chroot >> environments here and there. For good reasons imo. > > i have seen way too much successful breakins in customer servers > the last few years that i would ever connect a non-supported > OS to WAN > > chroot will not help if the kernel itself is vulnerable and > a low treated security bypass can often be used to trigger > even local exploits in other system components and they possible > bypases in systems these days are wide spreaded > > in my opinion i consider a outdated system as broken > > _______________________________________________ > DBmail mailing list > DBmail@dbmail.org > http://mailman.fastxs.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbmail > _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list DBmail@dbmail.org http://mailman.fastxs.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
