[TriLUG] DST fix

[Cristóbal Palmer]

Nobody is stopping admins from patching their systems; they're just
not serving it on a platter. I call BS.

-CMP

On 2/27/07, Chris Bullock <cgbullock at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I think its absurd that Red Hat does not support their product with
> updates longer than a year if you bought their product, I can understand
> no support but updates should be included.  This will eventually lead to
> cracked/hacked/rooted machines since Red Hat is refusing to give important
> updates to its consumers.  I like linux, but I feel that Windows providing
> support until end of life should be an example followed by Red Hat.
> Regards,
> Chris Bullock
> --- "Andrew C. Oliver" <acoliver at buni.org> wrote:
>
> > If the choice is: No patches on RHEL or CentOS + patches...I can tell
> > you which one I'D prefer
> > he run. (However I also would prefer people retire their Windows 95
> > boxes just to be good netizens :-D )
> >
> > -Andy
> > manager of uninfected web servers frequented by code red infected
> > windows boxes since July 2001
> >
> > David McDowell wrote:
> > > Warren, that is the obvious bit. *sigh*
> > >
> > > What I'm trying to say is that it could potentially change the
> > > distro... sure all the binaries are probably fine and your programs
> > > still work, but it would no longer be "RHEL". Is this what Mark
> > > *really* wants? Someone who knows what I'm saying, I know there is a
> > > better way to explain this than what I'm coming up with.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > David
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 2/26/07, Warren Myers <volcimaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> CentOS _IS_ RHEL - just recompiled.
> > >>
> > >> On 2/26/07, David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > ! with a warning that this will make the box a CentOS box, no
> > longer
> > >> > a RHEL box... correct????
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > On 2/26/07, Mark Fowle <mfowle at adeliesystems.com> wrote:
> > >> > > Thanks I will try this.
> > >> > >
> > >> > >
> > >> > > On 2/26/07, William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:
> > >> > > > As an alternative, grab
> > >> ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007c.tar.gz
> > >> > > > then use "zic" to convert that data to zone files[1]
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > --
> > >> > > > William Sutton
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > [1] Thanks to derobert_work on #trilug
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 jason at monsterjam.org wrote:
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > > supposedly you can just copy it from a patched box in the
> > same
> > >> > timezone.. Im sure
> > >> > > > > someone here can find you a copy of the file..
> > >> > > > >
> > >> > > > > Jason
> > >> > > > >
> > >> > > > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 03:27:18PM -0500,
> > >> > > > > Mark Fowle wrote:
> > >> > > > > > All - I have an older RHEL ES3 server that no long has
> > up2date
> > >> > (no
> > >> > > > > > contracts, etc..) -
> > >> > > > > > I need to patch it for Day Light Savings and am not sure
> > whats
> > >> > > > > > involved except for tzdata (source and patch) - I've
> > >> downloaded
> > >> > it,
> > >> > > > > > but have no clue what to do with it? Has anyone out there
> > >> applied
> > >> > > > > > this manually?
> > >> > > > > >
> > >> > > > > > Thanks,
> > >> > > > > > Mark
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Cristóbal M. Palmer
UNC-CH SILS Student -- ils.unc.edu/~cmpalmer
TriLUG Vice Chair
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