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 all possible) on a system so far out of date...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