Re: [CentOS] Upgrade Question

2012-01-11 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 01/10/2012 12:55 PM, Gene Poole wrote: We've got about 200 existing servers running CentOS/RHEL 5.6 and all new servers are being provisioned using CentOS/RHEL 6.1. So that everything is consistent we need to upgrade the servers running CentOS/RHEL 5.6. I've searched the CentOS wiki,

[CentOS] Upgrade Question

2012-01-10 Thread Gene Poole
We've got about 200 existing servers running CentOS/RHEL 5.6 and all new servers are being provisioned using CentOS/RHEL 6.1. So that everything is consistent we need to upgrade the servers running CentOS/RHEL 5.6. I've searched the CentOS wiki, the Red Hat site, and the internet looking for

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade Question

2012-01-10 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:55:05 -0500 Gene Poole wrote: We've got about 200 existing servers running CentOS/RHEL 5.6 and all new servers are being provisioned using CentOS/RHEL 6.1. So that everything is consistent we need to upgrade the servers running CentOS/RHEL 5.6. I've searched the

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade Question

2012-01-10 Thread m . roth
Gene Poole wrote: We've got about 200 existing servers running CentOS/RHEL 5.6 and all new servers are being provisioned using CentOS/RHEL 6.1. So that everything is consistent we need to upgrade the servers running CentOS/RHEL 5.6. I've searched the CentOS wiki, the Red Hat site, and the

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade Question

2012-01-10 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:35 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: We've got about 200 existing servers running CentOS/RHEL 5.6 and all new servers are being provisioned using CentOS/RHEL 6.1.  So that everything is consistent we need to upgrade the servers running CentOS/RHEL 5.6. I've searched the

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade Question

2012-01-10 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:35 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: We've got about 200 existing servers running CentOS/RHEL 5.6 and all new servers are being provisioned using CentOS/RHEL 6.1.  So that everything is consistent we need to upgrade the servers running CentOS/RHEL

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade Question

2012-01-10 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:35 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: What we do is build one, then create /boot/new and /new on the next server, rsync over to them, then mkdir /boot/old and /old, and (using zsh with modules loaded) mv * old, mv old/lost+found ., mv old/new/* ., make sure a few things

Re: [CentOS] upgrade question. - when to reboot

2009-01-15 Thread Michael Simpson
On 1/15/09, Kenneth Burgener kenn...@mail1.ttak.org wrote: On 1/9/2009 9:49 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: If a hard reboot is what you are attempting to avoid, with 'kexec' even the Linux kernel can be reloaded without a hardware reset. This is convenient if you want to avoid the long system

Re: [CentOS] upgrade question. - when to reboot

2009-01-15 Thread Brian
Michael Simpson wrote: if you really have to have as perfect an uptime as possible then you can actually patch a running kernel using ksplice http://www.ksplice.com/ should only be used for critical security updates but useful nonetheless mike

Re: [CentOS] upgrade question. - when to reboot

2009-01-14 Thread Kenneth Burgener
On 1/9/2009 9:49 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: Brian wrote: Is there a list of packages that after update require a reboot, other then kernel? For updates other than the kernel, there is almost always an answer short of a full reboot. But, finding that answer and being 100% certain

[CentOS] upgrade question.

2009-01-09 Thread Brian
I've did some googling and have not came up with and answer yet. Is there a list of packages that after update require a reboot, other then kernel? TIA Brian ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] upgrade question.

2009-01-09 Thread Robert Nichols
Brian wrote: I've did some googling and have not came up with and answer yet. Is there a list of packages that after update require a reboot, other then kernel? That is a difficult question, and the answer depends on how certain you need to be that no running process is still using the