[Triumf-linux-managers] Informative Announcement for SL4.x End Of Life Today!

[Kelvin Raywood]

As per the announcement below, Scientific-Linux 4 (and of course 
earlier) has now reached end-of-life.

If your machines are only used as normal desktop workstations, then it 
is highly unlikely that they will become vulnerable to remote 
exploitation in the near future.  The vast majority of security updates 
are to fix local privilege escalation or denial of service 
vulnerabilities.  Remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in the kernel or 
properly-configured core-services (openssh, portmap, nfs, ...) are 
extremely rare.

Nevertheless, we recommend that make plans to replace SL-4 (or earlier) 
with SL-5 or SL-6.  The expected end-of-life date for SL-5 is March 31, 
2017 and for SL-6 it is November 30, 2020.

Installation instructions for SL-5 or SL-6 at TRIUMF are here:

http://ccn.triumf.ca/desktop-computing/linux

--
Kel Raywood
Core Computing and Networking
TRIUMF



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Informative Announcement for SL4.x End Of Life Today!
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:29:36 -0600
From: Pat Riehecky <riehecky at fnal.gov>
Organization: Fermilab
To: SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-ANNOUNCE at LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV 
<SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-ANNOUNCE at LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV>

In accordance with our Upstream Vendor's Errata Support Policy, the
regular life-cycle of Scientific Linux 4 will end today, the last day
of February 2012.

After today's date, The Upstream Vendor will discontinue their regular
update services.  We must follow them in this matter.  Therefore, new
bug fix, enhancement, and security errata updates will no longer be
available for Scientific Linux 4 after the End of Life date.  They will
not be providing updates and so we cannot provide them.

Anyone still running production workloads on Scientific Linux 4 should
be aware that after today no updates of any kind will be published.
Because of this, we hope everyone has completed their migration to
Scientific Linux 5 or Scientific Linux 6 by now.

The existing Scientific Linux 4 directories will be archived in April
2012.  People wishing to obtain a personal archive of Scientific
Linux 4 can do so during that window.

Again, this is a reminder of the end of life for Scientific Linux 4.

- Scientific Linux Development Team