There's actually a logical reason for this. One of the criticisms of RedHat in the past has been that by default, their systems (especially their server installs), have been way too open. Redhat has taken this on board, and has adopted a stance of enabling minimum functionality by default, then from there on in, allowing the user to open things as they desire. This is the reason for things like the sendmail change, by default a brand new RedHat system shouldn't allow access to anything from anywhere except localhost. I actually think RedHat should be applauded for listening to its users, because the openness of standard RedHat installs was a well known and well exploited problem. Just to clarify. regards Aaron On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 06:30:49PM -0700, Darrell Shandrow wrote: > Hi Janina, > > I had a RH 7.2 system with few modifications; the upgrade worked great! I > don't like the RH defaults, though... Sometimes, their defaults seem a bit > random. For instance, RH decided that Sendmail didn't need to listen to any > outside interfaces by default... They didn't decide that in earlier > releases. Interesting... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 5:09 PM > Subject: Re: Upgrading from Redhat 7.3 to 8.0 > > > > The Red Hat installer offers upgrade an existing installation as a choice. > Whether or not it actually works depends on > > how much tweaking and twiddling you've done to your existing setup. If > you're ;running a beta release, it definitely > > won't work. > > > > Peter Konka writes: > > > From: Peter Konka <peter at cwareonline.com> > > > > > > Is it possible to upgrade from Redhat Linux 7.3 to 8.0? and if so, is > it > > > easy? > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > > > Janina Sajka, Director > > Technology Research and Development > > Governmental Relations Group > > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- +----------------------------------------------------------+ / |\ _,,,---,,_ /| / /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ / | / |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' / | / '---''(_/--' `-'\_) / | +----------------------------------------------------------+ | | Aaron Howell Kitten Internet | | | aaron at kitten.net.au Internet consultancy, | | | Phone: +61-417-625550 System administration, | | | fax: +61-7-36010099 system design/integration. | | | icq: 6715521 http://www.kitten.net.au | | | | | | | + | | / | | / | | / | |/ +----------------------------------------------------------+
