<div class="gmail_quote">On 18 April 2011 13:48, Tom Horsley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:horsley1953@gmail.com">horsley1953@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:07:33 +0100<br>
Dave Cross wrote:<br>
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> What kind of hosting company installs an operating system that has<br>
> been unsupported for three years?<br>
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</div>One that has been in business for about 3 years and has just<br>
been copying the original fedora 6 image they setup when<br>
they started using the rote procedures the consultant they<br>
hired at that time created?<br>
<div><div></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br>This may be a dumb question, but since it hasn't actually come up yet... Are we *certain* the hosting company in question installed Fedora v6 and not the current release (also v6) of Red Hat Enterprise Linux?<br>
<br>IIRC Fedora was still under the Red Hat banner at v6, so this could be a simple mix up by a sales droid or some other communication SNAFU. Especially so since RHN might be a much more appealing way of managing a large number of installs than rolling their own solution on Fedora for a web hosting company...<br>
<br>What does the command "cat /etc/redhat-release" return?<br><br>-- <br>Andy<br><br>The only person to have all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe<br>