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

[Ron Blizzard <rb4centos@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Brian Mathis <brian.mathis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Uptime is a red herring and is generally meaningless.  You'd be better
> off performing updates and reboots at least once a month, so you don't
> need to worry about any big changes that might come with not updating
> for almost 2 years.  If you updated now and something broke, you
> wouldn't know what did it.  If you keep up incrementally, you can
> catch the small things as they come.  You also don't have a "delicate
> flower" that you need to worry if it won't come up after the next
> reboot.  That's not a good situation to be in.

Except, in this case, you could probably go forever without updating.
CentOS/Asterisk is just the switch's embedded OS as used here. I've
maintained many Nortel switches (based on Wind River UNIX) which
weren't patched for years -- no need to update the OS unless there was
a specific problem or a necessary new feature. But I do think Rob
wants to update this system. The problem is, unlike computer networks,
people are very intolerant of phone downtime.

-- 
RonB -- Using CentOS 5.3
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