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Re: [LUG] Oh dear

 

On 21/10/11 19:56, Dave Foxcroft wrote:
>
> Isn't CentOS built from RHEL sources?

Mostly. They provide some commitment to maintain it which I suspect
means forking bits here and there.

> Ok I know it's not RHEL but it is
> pretty much most of it and it is the choice of  a lot co-lo /hosting
> companies - no doubt because of what it is based on.

Yes.

> I'm not saying I agree with him...but I can kinda see where he is coming
> from - your system shouldn't be so badly affected to render it unusable
> by something so essential as a security update... you have to wonder
> just how 'twitchy' the system was before!

We don't have the details.

I can quite believe a vendor supplied Centos might have a customized
kernel, or that an update might mangle anything.

Almost certainly with a remote console and appropriate bootable media
you could recover the system, and undo the offending portion of the update.

I suspect from the description he ran the update after configuring his
system, rather than before (even Gordon starts with up to date boxes
before he sticks his software on and lets them rot for years).

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