Robert L Cochran wrote:
I have a server box running Fedora Core 2 which hasn't been updated
since sendmail 8.12.11-4.6.
If this machine is internet-exposed, you should replace it immediately
with something that is still getting security updates.
I guess I'm going to have to figure out how to do an in-place
replacement of the operating system. I can install a second physical
hard drive, install Fedora 8 or CentOS 5 on that, and then start
migrating data from the FC 2 system to the new one over several days
time. I can use grub to switch between the two.
That can work with a certain amount of downtime while you install and
juggle things although it's a lot easier if you can build the
replacement on a different machine and swap it (or the drives) into
place when everything works with a final rsync of data at the last
minute. If you plan to keep this running for years without
reinstalling, Centos would be a better choice, since you can expect 'yum
update' to supply security fixes for 7 years.
Then when all looks
ready, switch to the (far newer) system. Probably the biggest problem
will be migrating my two mailing lists from mailman 2.1.5-10 to whatever
version is out there now.
Centos5 would supply 2.1.9, so probably not a big difference.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
