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How often do you update software on your servers? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Or asked the other way around: How long do you keep your servers running without installing any software updates?

update means something like

sudo dnf update

or something ....

apt-get upgrade
apt-get update
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[–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

When something doesn't work. I.e. when an app update causes incompatibility with a service. I think I have one server that's a few years without an update (distro version may actually be EOL for all I know).

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Why probably so may unpatched issues.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Ain't broke and I can't be bothered to update. Not accessible publicly either. It also runs some software with very specific and brittle dependencies and I don't care to risk breaking it. If distro is EOL (probably is) then it'd be a pretty time consuming getting everything set up again.

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