This is true. You do want to keep them up to date. Being cautious is a good
thing, (as we've learned over the last couple of weeks) but at the same
time, it really is a good idea to have a test server sitting around to run
these updates on first before doing them on the production systems.
Doug
-----Original Message-----
From: Xin CHEN [mailto:xchen (at mark) housleyconsulting.com.au]
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 5:13 PM
To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Subject: [coba-e:15324] Re: Dovecot Auth I/O Leak Error
It looks like I was wrong about not updating. I always thought never
update unless have to :)
OK. I will pick one of the Server to start with.
Thanks guys.
-tim
On 16/03/2009, at 10:29 AM, Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet wrote:
> Xin CHEN wrote:
>> Hi Jimmy,
>> Thanks for the comments. We have other Servers running just fine
>> without update as well. The reason I am afraid of updating system
>> is that I saw a lot of emails that says "after updating, we have
>> problems with ..... " These are all production Servers. So I don't
>> want to update unless have to. Has anyone had this kind of error
>> messages before?
>
> Yikes! We update our BQ servers weekly and our BX servers nightly.
> I would suggest if you have several production servers that you roll
> out your updates on a test system, or do what you need to in order
> to ensure your safety. But absolutely keep your system up to date!
>
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