Problem creating user account

[Outback Dingo]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Julian H. Stacey <jhs at berklix.com> wrote:

> "Herbert J. Skuhra" wrote:
> > Den 23.04.2013 13:17, skrev AMS_MDF_operations:
> > > LS,
> > > What is going ewrong?
> > >
> > > Problem : Creating user account
> > >
> > > -bash-2.05b$ uname -a
> > > FreeBSD us-syslog01.dcn.versatel.net 4.9-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD
> > > 4.9-RELEASE-p10 #1: Thu Jun 24 10:04:37 GMT 2004
> > > root at syslog1.versatel.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SYSLOG  i386
> > > -bash-2.05b$
> >
> > This version of FreeBSD is 9 years old and long EOL'ed.
> > Have you ever considered upgrading this machine?
>
> Wow !  Actually I too still run some 4 (for reasons
> I won't distract this thread with) as well as other hosts on
> 9.1-RELEASE etc, but if AMS_MDF_operations at tele2.com needs to stay
> on 4, he/she should at least consider upgrading to 4.11-RELEASE for
> various bug fixes while staying on same feature set.
>
>
looking at the hostname, it simply appears to be a syslog server, so why
upgrade it, if it aint broke dont fix it
4.X was rock solid stable and fast



> Cheers,
> Julian
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