From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chuck Gelm Subject: Re: redhat 6.2 dies 3/31/2003 + AX25 2.4 kernel issues Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 10:23:52 -0500 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E09CD88.B24674B8@gelm.net> References: <3E099099.7070306@junglevision.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Cathryn Mataga Cc: linux-hams Holye Moley, Cathryn Mataga: Sounds like 'the sky is falling' to me. 1. Red Hat problem! 2. I've been running kernel 2.4.x on three machines without a single crash for many months. Perhaps your crashes are not a kernel-2.4.x problem. ? 3. Instead of complaining about old Red Hat distributions, you could upgrade the distribution or change distributions. 4. Again, Red Hat related and not linux-hams related. However, my distribution works fine with kernel-2.2.19, 2.4.5, 2.4.19, & 2.4.20. :-) 5. See 3. 6. See 4. HTH, Chuck Cathryn Mataga wrote: > > According to the Redhat website, Redhat 6.2 and 7.0 > both die on 3/31/2003. These are the only supported versions > that run with the 2.2 kernel. But, I've also read messages > here that the 2.4 kernel has race conditions and is prone > to crash. So, the question is, what do I do with my ax25 > Linux system with RF modems on 3/31/2003? > > 1. Somehow get the 2.4 kernel fixed by 3/31/2003? Is this > possible? What exactly is the issue, and how bad is this? > Is this likely to happen? > > 2. Just live with the crashing. Cycle the power on the > machine every other day with a timer or some other horrible solution. > Maybe it won't be that that bad. > > 3. Maybe someone other than Redhat will continue to do security patches > for 6.2? I can't believe I'm the only one running 6.2. Right? > > 4. Upgrade to a new Redhat, but somehow install a 2.2 kernel in > a distribution designed for 2.4. Will this work? (I'm scared.) > > 5. Switch to some other distribution that will continue to support > 2.2 after 3/31/2003. > > 6. Continue with 6.2 and keep an eye out for vulnerabilities and > maybe strip out a few services that I use otherwise. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html