On Fri, 2002-07-05 at 19:45, Ian wrote: > Hello. I have RH 7.2 installed on a system that is used primarily as an > internet webserver. It hosts a number of websites, as well as other internet > functions. I'm thinking about upgrading to 7.3, but I don't want any > problems or difficulties during or after the process. I know the webserver > will be down during the duration of the upgrade, but will I have major > problems after the upgrade? Will the webserver work just as it did before? > For example, I use PostFix instead of Send Mail, so will the upgrade program > recognize things like this?? And I don't want to have to re-compile other > programs that I have customized and compiled from their source. Does anybody > have any experience with this sort of thing? Thanks for any and all help. > > - Ian >
I upgraded from iso images and did not have any problems. You will need to run up2date as soon you get it back up and running to avoid security problems. It pretty much did everything automatically. I used workstation. If you have postfix installed and do not select and install sendmail it will upgrade just the package you have installed. I even let the up2date do the kernel update after I updated everything else, no problem there either. 7.3 Evolution is broken and needs updating just to work. I think upgrade will make a backup of your httpd.conf or it will install the new one as httpd.conf.newrpm. You may want to tar the /etc directory and other important files and place them in your home dir. At this point and time, I can't believe RedHat still ships with broken code, but it does. With up2date it makes it easier if you have dsl/cable, but I expected better from a large company. In fact, "most" of the packages in the 7.3 tree will run on 7.2. I have not viewed the changelog in detail but you may want to take a look at it. In any case, upgrading is better than starting over with these two. jay Say goodbye to slowpoke gnome and say hello to xfce/xfwm! http://www.xfce.org/ _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
