[CentOS] Error on starting apache server

John R Pierce pierce at hogranch.com
Fri Mar 9 17:18:59 UTC 2007


Joshua Gimer wrote:
> From a security perspective I am not going to be held waiting for Red 
> Hat to release a new version or patch. I install primary packages from 
> source, this allows ME to decide when I want to install a new version. 
> It also allows me to have more control of the features that I am 
> installing with a package, not the ones that others have decided to be 
> useful.
>  
> Some people prefer the upstream approach, I personally do not. Just my 
> opinion, this is the advice that I give to even our Junior sys admins. 
> The attackers that actually know what they are doing, know that people 
> wait for a patches from the vendor; these are the people that I am 
> worried about recieving attacks from.

then why are you using RHEL/CentOS at all?  Why not a source based 
distro like Gentoo ?





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