Ask help for updating the package "Ziproxy" on Ubuntu 9.10

[Qian HE]

Thank you much for the advice.  I spent the whole night to upgrade the OS, fix scripts, check package dependencies, and do a lot of dirty stuff...

Fortunately, all the services are running in good condition now.

Thanks~


On May 30, 2011, at 2:35 PM, Soren Hansen wrote:

> 2011/5/29 Qian HE <me at heqian.name>:
>> Upgrading OS is a nightmare to me.
> 
> I'm not trying to be dramatic or anything, but having the system be
> compromised because a critical security vulnerability does not get
> fixed (because, as Micah points out, Karmic is no longer supported
> (and hence does not get security updates any longer)) sounds like a
> much worse nightmare to me.
> 
>>  Especially it's running on VPS
>> with a lot of services...
> 
> If by "services" you mean something that's exposed to a network, those
> are reasons *for* upgrading (since they're easier to attack if there's
> a security problem), not *against* upgrading.
> 
> 
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> Soren Hansen
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