On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 11:20:27AM -0700, Darren Spruell wrote:
> On 1/15/07, Alexander Bochmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >...on Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 08:42:35AM +0100, Marc Balmer wrote:
> >
> > > hmm, why are people so proud of their uptimes when it only show they
> > > don't care for their systems?
> >
> >Bah, uptimes (is it that time of the year again?)...
> >
> >Last login: Sun Jan 7 19:22:19 2007 from xxxxxxx
> >OpenBSD 2.3 (LOCAL) #0: Wed Jul 31 12:51:38 CEST 2002
> >
> >Welcome to OpenBSD: The proactively secure Unix-like operating system.
> >
> >{104} ls -al /etc/localtime
> >lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 33 Jun 12 1998 /etc/localtime ->
> >/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin
> >
> >That's an Internet-connected system, running mail, web, DNS.
>
> Do you sleep well at night exposing that system to the Internet? One
> would question the amount of effort to ensure patch application (if at
> all possible) on a system so far out of date...
If you are careful, and know what you do, and know what software to run,
you can get away with a very small number of patches.
Still, I do try to upgrade at least once a year.
Joachim
