Rob Kampen wrote:
> >>
> I have a dedicated * CentOS box that shows today as uptime 543 days. I
> built from scratch as I needed to support a four port analog trunk card.
> This does not have internet access as I'm running it like an old
> fashioned PABX -
> just with great sip / linux based snom desk phones and all the attendant
> wiz-bang super stuff that * provides.
>
> I do want to do an update of it all to latest versions etc. but when it
> just keeps working it is hard to justify the down time and potential
> hic-ups.
If you are very well firewalled and trust all the local users you might
get away with ignoring security updates but it's mostly a matter of
luck. With the stock CentOS components, your downtime for an update is
normally just a reboot and problems are extremely rare. If you'd added
custom or 3rd party code items there's a somewhat greater risk, but it
is still pretty unlikely that an update would break things - or that you
wouldn't have heard about other people having a problem.
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Les Mikesell
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