14 Oct
2009
14 Oct
'09
9:04 p.m.
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 integrity of critical systems?
I've been seeing this mentality a lot recently, and while in some corner-cases it does make sense, for the majority of users it does not and leaves them open to pain and suffering in the future.
Update once in a while after testing in a properly configured test environment and you will, in the long run, be much happier.
John
--
DMR: So fsck was originally called something else.
Q: What was it called?
DMR: Well, the second letter was different.
Dennis M. Ritchie, Usenix, June 18, 1998.