On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 14:47 -0800, centos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Jim Smith wrote:
>
> > Are you serious? Running a server for a year without updates? If you
> > don't mind my asking were you living in a cave or something? I hope
> > you don't use the same principles on Windows are you will be 40,000
> > viruses/trojans and malware worse off!!
>
> I also have a server that I have not updated since the original
> CentOS 4. And not only that, I will not update it.
>
> Why?
>
> 1. It works.
> 2. It's a database server.
> 3. There are no user logged unless it's me.
> 4. There is no connection to Internet, only internal users are
> allowed and it has its own firewall.
> 5. Why take the chance that something will break?
>
> I have a few CentOS 4.1 workstations that I can't fully upgrade
> because 4.2 broke X with some ATI cards, and those workstations
> have ATI cards. There are no problem with the nVidia cards,
> including the hardware acceleration. It's a problem in the ATI
> driver.
>
> So why should I risk the database server go down?
>
If you are not connected to the internet, then that is fine ... for
machines that are connected to the internet, security updates need to be
applied when they are released.
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