Hi Aaron, OK! This does makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Aaron Howell wrote: > 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 > >
