Thank you for the super fast responses and for the push in the right direction! On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Kevin Krieser <k_krieser at sbcglobal.net>wrote: > > On Jul 7, 2010, at 6:10 PM, Matthew Valentino wrote: > > > I'm relatively new to CentOS. I ordered a VPS and requested CentOS 5.5. > As I was installing packages, I noticed that some of the versions are pretty > old - for example, Postfix is v 2.3 in the repo (and, according to Postfix's > website - no longer mainted). Is this a security risk as the current version > is 2.7.1? > > > > Building and compiling Postfix from source seems to cause additional > problems with yum, so I'm not sure what to do other than perhaps switch to > something like Fedora. Perhaps there's a third-party repo with updated > packages that I haven't found? > > > > Thanks, > > During the support time of the OS, security updates will be made. If not > by the package maintainer, then by the upstream Linux vendor. > > Sometimes, it is by backporting fixes. Sometimes (Firefox for example), an > upgrade to a more current version will be made. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100708/c8af4bb4/attachment-0005.html>