[TriLUG] oldest production linux box
Mike M
linux-support at earthlink.net
Thu Mar 4 16:20:49 EST 2004
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 03:28:26PM -0500, Dan Monjar wrote:
>
> which might explain why I got no other replies <grin>...
And then there are the stories about the "forgotten" servers.
> as far as security
> Turnpike Man called it right. The only thing this machines does is service
> internal DNS queries. You can't get to it through the Internet. If you
> are sitting on my internal network you can get to it and I suppose you
> could hack into it if you really wanted to. But it wouldn't get you much.
> I haven't updated the kernel because it works for what I need it to do.
> But that doesn't mean I haven't updated the other components. I tend to
> install minimal systems and then compile the other programs I need from the
> source, at least for my servers. I just never got into the 'install the
> binaries from the rpm' state of mind. It just not how I like to do things.
Heh. I did that too until I discovered apt.
--
When the correction first comes, we tend to underreact. While we do not
like the surprise, we tend to think of it as maybe a one-time thing.
Things, we believe, will soon get back to normal. We do not scale back
our expectations sufficiently. It apparently takes years for this to
work itself out. - John Mauldin
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