New to Filepro and the list

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Mon Mar 1 08:54:14 PST 2004


On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 10:43:41AM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> Welcome.  And if that system is not a stanalone server, when are you
> updating the OS?  RH9 goes EOL on April 31.
> 
> Not that you -have- to migrate, I suppose.  I'm maintaining some 7.x
> systems for people.  It's just more expensive to maintain.

And for what it's worth, it's mostly an issue if the machine is in some
way exposed to the Internet.  I have one client whom we just this month
upgraded from (are you sitting down? :-) Red Hat 5.2.

Their CMOS battery was dying.

Cheers,
-- jra
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