Upgrade due to CentOS 5 EOL

[Dmitry Melekhov]

13.04.2017 08:41, Robert Moskowitz пишет:
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> On 04/13/2017 12:31 AM, Dmitry Melekhov wrote:
>> 13.04.2017 06:34, Robert Moskowitz пишет:
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>>> On 04/12/2017 09:53 PM, Curtis wrote:
>>>> Good evening all
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>>>> We have been running Postfix/Cyrus/Amavis on CentOS for over 10 years.
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>>>> Now we are faced with upgrading from CentOS 5 due to EOL. Choices 
>>>> are CentOS 6 and 7.  Comments as to best choice would be greatly 
>>>> appreciated.
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>>> Centos6 EOL is ~8 years away.
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>> https://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-fe8a0be91ee3e7dea812e8694491e1dde5b75e6d 
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>> CentOS-6 updates until November 30, 2020
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> Even sooner.  2.8 years before it shuts down.
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it is more then 3 years from now.
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> Not a time to move to Centos 6.
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It depends on your company policy, there are companies replacing servers 
every 3-4 years, and there are companies
run servers till they die ;-)