Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 12:08:08 -0500 From: Greg Barniskis <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, albi <albi@scii.nl> Subject: Re: details about EOL (of FreeBSD 5.4) ? Message-ID: <4460CC78.8050303@scls.lib.wi.us> In-Reply-To: <20060509160258.GC89331@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <44605ED5.8090805@scii.nl> <20060509141943.GA88511@xor.obsecurity.org> <4460B7D6.9040502@scls.lib.wi.us> <20060509160258.GC89331@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:40:06AM -0500, Greg Barniskis wrote: >> If 2006 is accurate, this is registering on me as a significant POLA >> violation. Very hard to believe this is accurate. If accurate, what >> list/channel/forum should I have been paying more attention to? > > security@, and the website where this has been announced for a LONG > TIME. The policy and rationale is all there. OK, thanks. Searched back in my security@ archives and found it, plain as day. The discussion of 5.4's fate did happen long ago. I actually read it carefully at the time but didn't think much of it, believing we'd surely have our servers on 6.x by now. So I totally take back the POLA statement -- I knew this was coming and it was my mistake to forget and let mgmt. defer the upgrade plan. We'll do an interim hop from RELENG_5_4 to RELENG_5, and escalate our path to 6.x adoption. Actually, it'll be nice to wave the EOL stick to force some action on that. Running EOL server parts is against policy. =) -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) <gregb at scls.lib.wi.us>, (608) 266-6348
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