Re: RedHat 9 security patches

chris_at_nospam.com
Date: 09/05/04


Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 19:20:34 GMT

On 4 Sep 2004 23:03:00 -0700, "Nathan Funk" <nathan.funk@gmail.com>
wrote:

>I'm sure this question has been asked many times, but I can't find any
>info on RedHat's site, so...
>
>How secure is it to keep a RedHat 9 system running now (running
>openssh, apache...)? Are security patches still issued via up2date? I
>have not received any updates in the last months, so I've started
>wondering. I know RedHat 9 has reached it's end of life at RedHat, but
>I heard they would still issue patches. Maybe I heard wrong.
>
>Thinking of switching to Suse, but their Yast installer formatted my
>working partitions on a different system (even though I told it not
>to). So I'm a little scared. I'm also not too excited to use Fedora
>because I rather want something that is solid rather than cutting
>edge... Never tried Debian yet... maybe now's the time... I should stop
>rambling... but my fingers just keep on typing... aarrrghh... must
>stop...
>
>Ok, sorry about that. If you can answer my question, I will pronounce
>you super hero of the day.
>
>Thanks for tuning in,
>
>Nathan

I've installed YUM on a bunch of RH9 systems to keep them updated.
This is an interim solution until we migrate to RHEL, or decide to
move everything to one of the clones like Whitebox or CentOS.



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