[CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

Sun Sep 28 23:55:50 UTC 2014
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Vojin Urosevic <vu at linuxusers.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Greg Lindahl <lindahl at pbm.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> > A third source is companies with homegrown code deployed on CentOS
>> > servers and poor-quality test suites. They tend to be in the "omg
>> > never change anything unless forced at gunpoint!" camp. It's an
>> > unfortunate situation, and it can cost a lot of money and time to fix.
>>
>> >Or even with decent test suites you recognize that you can't perfectly
>> >mulate a live internet-connected production environment.  Or you've
>>
>>been burned by updates that did break things and the time it took to
>> >f>nd a workaround.  There's just no getting around complicated systems
>> >being complicated.
>
>
> Hence the need for immutable infrastructure.

Sure, right after the last bug is found and fixed.  Meanwhile we
balance the risk of change against the risk of not changing.

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   Les Mikesell
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