> > You can upgrade RH6.2 to RH7.0 in a number of ways.
> > My preferred way (to do any upgrade) is to obtain a CD rom and run it
> > from the CDrom. You can either buy this (cetustech or everythinglinux)
> > or download the iso and burn a CD.
I did this last night to ensure I was up to date and it was a pain. Is there
a file somewhere that tells you all the things that are going to break when
this is done? Here are some of the things that broke:
Squid -
squid now has an additional parameter for cache_dir so it would not run
until I figured this out.
Apache -
httpd refuses to run because it can't find a module for php3 etc. I'd bet it
won't work with FrontPage any more either (as my previous version did) but
I haven't had time to deal with that one yet.
pppd -
The pppd deamon required a slightly different syntax so I was offline for
quite a while. For some reason it could not obtain the local ip address
although I am supplying it from the command line. Removing the parameter
"auth" seemed to fix this.
NFS -
I thought I had this disabled but I'm still getting an error about "NFS
lockd" error 111 and portmap on startup that makes no sense to me so I'm off
to research that.
ip forwarding -
Stopped working which prevented a script I have for ipchains from running
properly in spite of having this listed in /etc/sysconfig/network. I've had
to switch this on by updating a file in the /proc directory.
All in all a very frustrating evening but something I've come to expect from
RedHat. I guess with the complexity of configurations this is to be expected
but I really wonder if such things couldn't be better detected by the
upgrade software or at least documented somewhere. [ this is where you point
me to the exact doco I missed :-) ]
Thanks for all the help you have provided over the years. The SLUG archive
is one of the best resources I have and I've learned heaps from it.
Cheers and happy holidays to all.
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Canberra, ACT
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