thought's about upgrading to RedHat 8.0

[William K. Hardeman]

I wouldn't upgrade to it for your server yet, since, as you say, you have a 
perfectly working production server. After all, as Joe Rhett says in 
another post, RH 8.0 just came out. If I ran RH, I would give it a few 
months to shake out, as RH's x.0 releases are often followed up shortly by 
x.1 releases to fix the problems in the x.0 releases.

If you're concerned about the Slapper worm, upgrade your Apache+SSL only. 
For other security updates, if you didn't compile the software yourself, 
use the RH up2date feature. It should have all the pertinent security fixes 
available there.

Just my $.02.

Will

--On Thursday, 03 October, 2002 00:15 +0200 Bryntez <tom at bryntez.com> wrote:

> Hi list...
>
> Regarding: Redhat 8.0 is out.....
>
> I have a perfectly (at least I belive so) working Cyrus imap
> production server running on a RedHat 7.3 platform.
>
> But the latest development in security and virus related issues,
> it looks like I should upgrade this system to RedHat 8.0. I'm
> thinking especially about the ssl port 433 stuff (slapper.worm)
>
> We're running Cyrus Sasl 2.1.5 and Cyrus Imap 2.1.5 with
> MySQL and Postfix systems, providing users/domain dbase and smtp
> services with smtp sasl authentication. I've also put in a suitable
> amount of effort into the Apache php system, to customise the
> various utilities needed for a successful webmail solution.
>
> You know - when you have a working box - you don't want to mess
> things up by any unessesary software upgrades, which can give
> you a lot of headache outwards the evening.... :-)
>
> Any thoughts or recommendations regarding upgrading to
> Redhat 8.0 ?



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