Erik,
I agree with your approach. It seems to far better to move
everything off the server first then completely re-install.
This can be important if new releases of the OS have improved
local filesystem features (eg when AIX went from version 3 to 4).
It also allows you to do any security configuration from
a fresh install image before releasing the server back to production.
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Another Unix Christmas
you_better !pout
you_better !cry
you_better logout
man why
santa_claus < north_pole > town
ln -s /etc/group list
grep "^naughty:" list > no_gift_list
grep "^nice:" list > gift_list
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ps el > ps_list
grep " I " ps_list # idle/sleeping
grep " A " ps_list # active/awake
egrep 'Z | A' ps_list # "bad or good"
for i in goodness sake; do echo be good!; done
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< [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mugele Erik)
>I have gone with the second approach on all of my hardware/software
>upgrades. As another poster mentioned, if you have multiple servers this
>should be pretty easy. My AFS servers are dedicated to AFS and run no other
>services. When it comes time to do OS upgrades I would rather wipe my disks
>clean and install from scratch so generally, I just bring the target machine
>down after moving all of the volumes off of it to one of the other servers
>and then install the OS and install the AFS software all with original
>network settings.
>
>Erik
