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Hi Pete Peter Elmer wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > Note that SLAC no longer considers the RH72 machines secure. Are these > machines running RH72/RH73/RH8 _really_ being maintained with security > patches? well I hope they apply patches :-). > What do you consider their useful life to be? We need these servers (our good old NAS boxes) also for Objy. Of course we want to get rid of the old servers and the slow disks that are attached, but we need the disk space. So I guess we'll have these machines around for at least another 12 months if not longer. Cheers, Andreas > > Pete > > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 04:07:40PM +0200, Andreas Petzold wrote: > >>Peter Elmer wrote: >> >>> SLAC/SCS is pushing very hard to discontinue use of RH72 and hence the >>>development build announced today will be the last xrootd build for which >>>I will make binary tarballs and an rpm available for RH72. >>> >>> I was continuing to do this mostly as I knew that there were sites (e.g. >>>CNAF) which still had server machines running RH73. Have those machines >>>been migrated to SL? Does anybody have any RH72/RH73 server machines left? >>>(I'd strongly encourage you to migrate.) >> >>we have a bunch of servers at GridKa that run a mixture of >>RH72(?)/RH73/RH8. I don't think these systems will ever be re-installed >>again with SL/RHEL before the end of their usefull life. I think Gregory >>is building xrootd already for RH8. I think we would be happy, as long >>as building with gcc2.95.3 or gcc2.96 works. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Andreas >> >> >>> I guess ROOT may still support RH7x? While I'll not do binary builds of >>>xrootd and probably won't (at SLAC, at least) have access to RH7x machines, >>>I can probably do occasional build tests on SL3 with gcc2.95.3, say, which >>>should catch many of the problems that come up. >>> >>> (BTW, does anybody know what the current time-out date is for support >>>of RH73 at CERN? I seem to have lost track of that...) >>> >>> Pete >>> >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>Peter Elmer E-mail: [log in to unmask] Phone: +41 (22) 767-4644 >>>Address: CERN Division PPE, Bat. 32 2C-14, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Peter Elmer E-mail: [log in to unmask] Phone: +41 (22) 767-4644 > Address: CERN Division PPE, Bat. 32 2C-14, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland > -------------------------------------------------------------------------