In contrast an upgrade from 6.0 to 7.0 was not terrible, but some items that
were customized (DigiBoard drivers from Digi, etc) had to be reinstalled and
any of my customizations had to be re-done (customized some scripts inside
/etc/rc.d/init.d/*). As always make sure you have a backup of your old
system (even just the essential areas) so you can recover (or most
preferably--port your customizations over).
--Jim Roland, RHCE
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Hancock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ken Rossman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: Struggling with RedHat 7.1
>
> As mentioned, RH 7.1 introduced xinetd, replacing inetd. Do a `man
xinetd`
> for more info. Everything is off by default, so you'll have to re-enable
> things, as noted.
>
> I'm not sure what is wrong with Netscape.
>
> One thing I've noticed about large RedHat upgrades; avoid them. RPM
wasn't
> meant to do this kind of wholesale upgrading of a system. Unless the
update
> is something simple (like 6.1 to 6.2), it always seems better to reinstall
> the OS. The 7.0 to 7.1 was pretty large; many parts of the OS were
touched.
> This is easier if you've laid out your filesystems so that extra software
> you install is separate from the standard OS packages (e.g. make
/usr/local,
> /home, etc... their own filesystems).
>
> Just my opinion.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ken Rossman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 10:27 AM
> Subject: Struggling with RedHat 7.1
>
>
> > I've just upgraded from RedHat 7.0 to RedHat 7.1. Two things have
stopped
> > working (that I've noticed so far) in the way that they used to work.
> >
> > 1) Many inbound TCP ports seem to be disabled now. Telnet and ftp in
> > particular. How do I turn these back on? (I filter external
Internet
> > traffic with a NetGear firewall router, but would like to use these
> > ports internally on my home LAN).
> >
> > 2) Netscape won't run anymore under a non-root user:
> >
> > frankfurt> netscape
> > Warning: Cannot convert string "courR14" to type FontStruct
> > Bus error (core dumped)
>
>
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