[olug] Centos

[Sheldon, Roger W]

I would agree for the most part but we had a few servers that were not kept updated for whatever reason. Getting them to where they needed to be was a royal pain. In order to stay PCI compliant/certified we have to validate OS & software. For any outstanding audits we have to provide exceptions as to why something isn't PCI compliant.


Roger Sheldon
Storage Engineer
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From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Obi-Wan
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 11:17 AM
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Subject: Re: [olug] Centos

> Good point about keeping packages updated & upgrades. Definitely worth bringing up.

Unless you need support for a new device, I rarely found the slow package update cycle to be a problem for servers.  For production servers, you generally don't want to be upgrading packages willy nilly unless you've got a specific reason, like security updates or needed functionality.  Once it's stable, let it lie.


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