Re: [CentOS] Update question

2009-10-14 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/10/14 John R. Dennison : >        Because advising someone to run with known vulnerabilities >        is conducive to maintaining the integrity of critical >        systems? If those vulnerabilities put your servers at risk in the environment that you use them, then that would qualify as *nee

Re: [CentOS] Update question

2009-10-14 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 07:51:27PM +0100, Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > > Do you *need* to upgrade? If the machines are running anything > critical, I would be tempted to leave them with 5.2. Because advising someone to run with known vulnerabilities is conducive to maintaining the

Re: [CentOS] Update question

2009-10-14 Thread Ron Loftin
On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 19:51 +0100, Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > 2009/10/14 Ron Loftin : > > I have some customer machines that have not been updated for some time, > > and are still on CentOS 5.2. > > Do you *need* to upgrade? If the machines are running anything > critical, I would be tempted to

Re: [CentOS] Update question

2009-10-14 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/10/14 Ron Loftin : > I have some customer machines that have not been updated for some time, > and are still on CentOS 5.2. Do you *need* to upgrade? If the machines are running anything critical, I would be tempted to leave them with 5.2. Ben ___

Re: [CentOS] Update question

2009-10-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Ron Loftin wrote: > > I have some customer machines that have not been updated for some time, > and are still on CentOS 5.2.  While reading the release notes for 5.4, I > have not yet seen anything that looks like it needs attention, but are > there any known issue