Re: [CentOS] a few simple questions about upgrading an "official" centos 7 release

2018-02-23 Thread liza
> On Feb 22, 2018, at 9:34 AM, hw wrote: > > Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, hw wrote: >>> >>> The students you need to teach things like this are the ones that >>> will never become good admins. >> uh, that's kind of a condescending attitude to take towards

Re: [CentOS] a few simple questions about upgrading an "official" centos 7 release

2018-02-22 Thread hw
Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, hw wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... snip ... oh, i appreciate the need for caution; on the other hand, it always struck me that the training room is the *ideal* place for students to experiment with things they're too nervous or unsure

Re: [CentOS] a few simple questions about upgrading an "official" centos 7 release

2018-02-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, hw wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... snip ... > >oh, i appreciate the need for caution; on the other hand, it > > always struck me that the training room is the *ideal* place for > > students to experiment with things they're too nervous or unsure > > of to try

Re: [CentOS] a few simple questions about upgrading an "official" centos 7 release

2018-02-22 Thread hw
Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, Pete Biggs wrote: finally, any concerns i should have about upgrading the kernel from 3.10 to 4.14 or 4.15, as explained in a number of places like this: https://www.tecmint.com/install-upgrade-kernel-version-in-centos-7/ i simply prefer

Re: [CentOS] a few simple questions about upgrading an "official" centos 7 release

2018-02-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > finally, any concerns i should have about upgrading the kernel from > > 3.10 to 4.14 or 4.15, as explained in a number of places like this: > > > > https://www.tecmint.com/install-upgrade-kernel-version-in-centos-7/ > > > > i simply prefer to

Re: [CentOS] a few simple questions about upgrading an "official" centos 7 release

2018-02-22 Thread Pete Biggs
> > finally, any concerns i should have about upgrading the kernel from > 3.10 to 4.14 or 4.15, as explained in a number of places like this: > > https://www.tecmint.com/install-upgrade-kernel-version-in-centos-7/ > > i simply prefer to run a current kernel but i can resist the >

Re: [CentOS] a few simple questions about upgrading an "official" centos 7 release

2018-02-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2018-02-22, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > again, some fairly trivial(?) questions about working with centos > 7.4, given my time immersed in fedora so i want to make sure i'm not > carrying over any bad habits. > > first, is there anything untoward in updating an