It is interesting. Whenever I someone is telling of big uptime, the arguiment is:
Your server can not be secure! You have an old kernel! You MUST install/update the newest kernel and of course reboot. But this is not correct. For which reason a new kernel is necessary? 1. If there are extrem changes in the environment (unsupported new hardware or major software changes) 2. Security issues But a kernel can stay very, verry long time. On machines, where you do not change hard or software (i.e. new filesystems like btrfs), an old kernel will work perfectly. Security issues, which affect modules, but not the kernel itself, may not cause the need of a new kernel. When people lik me and others on this list, are using a very small kernel, with minimalistic modules, and the security issues affect modules, which are not built nor installed, then there is no need, to install a new kernel. So it is wrong to conclude and to say: Hey, your uptime is high, this concludes to an unsecure host due to an old kernel. To say so, is a big mistake! Just to clear things. :) Anyway, let's have fun at hacking. Best regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201304172243.28312.hans.ullr...@loop.de
