-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Eric,
On 9/25/13 5:18 PM, Eric Clifford wrote: > I'm in the middle of a hardware upgrade. The application expert > has on our project work list "copy /opt/tomcat/* from old machine > to new machine. > > The old machine is a Sun V240, running Solaris 9. > > The New machine is an Oracle (Sun) T4 server running Solaris 10. > > Tomcat version is Tomcat 6. > > Can we do this? Sure. > will it run? Probably: Tomcat was likely installed from a tarball and therefore is entirely self-contained. You may have some startup scripts under /etc that you'll need to move to get everything back the way it was, but Tomcat itself should be entirely under /opt/tomcat (assuming that's where it's been installed). > It seems to be a Java based product and it stands to reason that > if the JDK is the same it would be fine. That's a reasonable assumption. > I'm worried about any C code compiled for Solaris 9. Unless you are using APR/tcnative, there are no native components to Tomcat. You may have some of your own, but you'll have to check that our yourself. > Why should we NOT do this ? One reason: the opportunity to upgrade Tomcat during this process. IF you aren't on Tomcat 6.0.latest, you really should upgrade. If you are feeling confident, consider going all the way up to 7.0.latest. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJSQ3d0AAoJEBzwKT+lPKRYHvAP/1TMDnoWR78lPMYGIG/KNaol +ojngc+x9JLDHYQy/tKHuKexuNaaQsspyjzPmh7ICyZmes2lohW4FwPdK+MLRNeA TIjMlvfjnvTL0ykraX+MUzjJurC/XY2nV1yaw4ZlLsvD9gc52ikfeiTCUOGIrR09 97UKt3oZp2XpKj74S1tXBbglo6WnNv6SHNXfjTUgzxz+NIYagdmJNOpeh/31PODa PfW9Q1NHNNsz1C5l6NoVH9xnmYcikw3U4ary2HJoIq5c39Ng5x+1S54oOBj3yAKW r+SKUkd/QZeNc/1YLwqXGDOmqVB097PIbGDIIrEmgqtq1J7k5OyILndie/t3/DVu 0fXWLoJt7gmYnOQ76GmPTR361vw8mm8PXnkCCkUzkAMfiK0Fh1KtpZaxLfjET4bf ZVvdLYQHJ/SQ5ta+I2/RsbjedGtE12Mw5iBjAvykllXxdFueXCuJgMcLdfvQmF1U YOMmUGSdyD7jjs+w1+5Y9CaQNV8QDNDwtwrLHxgHQw7EykwyukhiH1Rm2rdpaaHK SUJiiotI+M/Qw1S+RKlrdSlMi3MKcWZUhaF0BMDDRQHf9LA06CTQsSZ248WrbFH3 qaebV8TetxBss58iGYT/1d6MXcB477UxWaFarNqCT+gd4J2KZA6aKS9SEVFhZXwe 3vdjRQXRgx7ToN4eENuA =ZGGN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
