On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 14:47 -0800, centos at 911networks.com wrote: > Jim Smith wrote: > > > Are you serious? Running a server for a year without updates? If you > > don't mind my asking were you living in a cave or something? I hope > > you don't use the same principles on Windows are you will be 40,000 > > viruses/trojans and malware worse off!! > > I also have a server that I have not updated since the original > CentOS 4. And not only that, I will not update it. > > Why? > > 1. It works. > 2. It's a database server. > 3. There are no user logged unless it's me. > 4. There is no connection to Internet, only internal users are > allowed and it has its own firewall. > 5. Why take the chance that something will break? > > I have a few CentOS 4.1 workstations that I can't fully upgrade > because 4.2 broke X with some ATI cards, and those workstations > have ATI cards. There are no problem with the nVidia cards, > including the hardware acceleration. It's a problem in the ATI > driver. > > So why should I risk the database server go down? > If you are not connected to the internet, then that is fine ... for machines that are connected to the internet, security updates need to be applied when they are released. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060227/639ce2dd/attachment-0003.sig>