On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 07:51:27PM +0100, Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > > Do you *need* to upgrade? If the machines are running anything > critical, I would be tempted to leave them with 5.2. Because advising someone to run with known vulnerabilities is conducive to maintaining the integrity of critical systems? I've been seeing this mentality a lot recently, and while in some corner-cases it does make sense, for the majority of users it does not and leaves them open to pain and suffering in the future. Update once in a while after testing in a properly configured test environment and you will, in the long run, be much happier. John -- DMR: So fsck was originally called something else. Q: What was it called? DMR: Well, the second letter was different. Dennis M. Ritchie, Usenix, June 18, 1998.
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