Re: Asterisk and VOIP was Re: CentOS for non-tech user

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx

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