[CLUE-Tech] RedHat & Postfix

[Matt Gushee]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 08:29:04AM -0600, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
> 
> > So anyway, I have a simple question about this: is RedHat currently
> > "supporting" Postfix? In other words, if I install Postfix from an RPM,
> > can I be reasonably sure that timely updates will be available for
> > whatever security holes are discovered?
> 
> You can find Red Hat's list of updates for 8.0 here:
> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh8-errata-security.html
> 
> I don't see any Postfix updates, but I'm not sure that there have been
> any security issues with Postfix since it's been released. 

Yes, I looked at that list too. And I guessed the same thing. But I'd
like to have a better idea of RedHat's policy before relying on their
packages.

> If you're concerned, and willing to do a little extra work, you could
> set up a RH 8 UML machine at home

UML? That means "Unified Modeling Language" to me, but obviously you
mean something else. What does it stand for?

> and create RPMs from new releases of
> Postfix... In fact, you should probably be prepared to do this anyway,
> since RH has announced that they'll be ending support for RH 8 at the
> end of the year: http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata/
> 
> Who are you using for hosting? If they're pre-installing RH 8, ask them
> if they have any kind of migration plan for users who are on RH 8 or if
> they plan to offer updates. 

It's johncompanies.com. And that's a good point. I'll ask.

> This is one of the reasons I decided to use Debian for my server instead
> of RH. They're a bit slower, but they have much better support for DIY
> types. 

Yes, I generally prefer Debian myself ... in fact I have been very
critical of RedHat for what I view as jumping the gun on some of their
releases. And I probably could have had Debian installed, but I was
taking advantage of a special discount for Open Source contributors, and
the Debian option wasn't part of the standard signup for that. So my
account was set up, and it was RedHat ... I considered asking to have it
switched to Debian, but decided it wasn't that important. These days I
generally use either stock pre-built packages or source tarballs. In
most cases, if it's just for my own use, it seems like more trouble than
it's worth to customize RPMs or .debs.

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