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Re: [Fwd: [BUGTRAQ] Big problem on 2.0.x?]
im not sure about this..
but i belive i read somewhere there are more than few security holes in
RH6.1
i will be more sure after ill get it from actcom in a few days :)
Moran Zavdi
Warp Security Response Team.
moran@sasa.org.il
-----Original Message-----
From: James Olin Oden <joden@lee.k12.nc.us>
To: erez@savan.com <erez@savan.com>
Cc: Moran <moran@sasa.org.il>; ILUG <linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il>
Date: יום שני 13 דצמבר 1999 18:29
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [BUGTRAQ] Big problem on 2.0.x?]
>>
>> some people do not want to upgrade their distribution because it will
mean a
>> lot of work
>> updating their scripts. and to move from 2.0.x to 2.2.x you need to
upgrade a
>> lot ...
>>
>> it took me for instance, a lot of time to upgrade my server from 2.0.36
(rh5.2)
>> to 2.2.x (rh6.1)
>>
>Also, sometimes the upgrades do some very stupid things. Like RH 5.x - 6.x
>seem to all overwrite your smb.conf file. I know on my productions
>servers whenever I do an upgrade I spend a half a day getting everything
back to
>normal. Also, there is the issue of security. I personnally waited
>for 6.1 to come out because I knew within the first six months many errata
>files would be produced for 6.0 to fix various holes that would be
found...james
>
>
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