John R Pierce wrote: > > indeed, and the followup links to... > > http://www.zimbra.com/forums/announcements/14213-our-centos-users.html > > which clarifies that the CentOS4 problem in the prior bulletin turned > out to be a customer-installed Perl 5.8.8 which caused problems with > Scalar::Util and that in fact, stock CentOS 4.5 and 4.6 worked just fine > for them. > > Absolutely-- but you'll note that even though the issue was customer inflicted, their FIRST response was to say "CentOS isn't supported!" Had the customer been running RHEL, there wouldn't have been a 50 hour delay between "CentOS is the problem!" and "Er, looks like it was an extra package the customer had installed." "Works on RHEL, you're running CentOS," while a canard in most cases, is very easy for a support organization to trot out. Of course, your mileage may vary... > The real issue is, when running complex multi-faceted software systems, > you really can't just update things at random and expect it to all play > nicely. > Obviously. :-) -- Corey / KB1JWQ