On Friday 18 October 2002 11:03, Peter Gutowski wrote:
I'd suggest that you consider upgrading to 8.0. I've been very impressed with the changes in 8.0 primarily in the area of user interface.
I've experienced problems with RHL upgrades in the past. But I believe the bulk of those problems owed to the fact that I was attempting to upgrade where the disk setup was just too "tight". Perhaps in contrast to to 7.0, both 7.3 and 8.0 put a lot of files into /usr/share. You'll may make things easier for yourself if /usr/share is on its own partition.
Aside from the be prepared for a general tightening of security. If you use sendmail, you'll probably have to add a "sendmail: ALL" into /etc/hosts.allow as the default is to only do mail handling from localhost. RHL 8.0 uses apache 2.x whereas RHL7.3 still uses the 1.3.x versions.
Is the php module ready for 2.x? I've been thinking about giving RH 8.0 a try to see if I can make use of my usb ports!
Having installations on hard disks with enough hard drive space has made both upgrades, 7.3 and 8.0, pretty painless. As Charles Anderson ;) may likely suggest to you, be sure to read (and digest) the README files on the install disks... probably before you start to alleviate too many surprizes. (Foolish boy that I was, I *didn't*. And to my embarassment, he [rightfully] rubbed my nose in it. But, hey, I learned my lesson.)
FYI, this may not be totally meaningful without know how much and just what exactly in installed. But, that said, I'd characterize my installation as medium -- neither slim nor fat. Here's some pertinent partition usages:
Filesystem 1K Blocks Used Available % Mounted on /dev/hda3 497861 80662 391495 18% / /dev/hda1 31079 6419 23056 22% /boot /dev/hda11 2063504 98612 1860072 6% /home /dev/hda7 2063504 1209760 748924 62% /usr /dev/hda9 521748 113052 382192 23% /usr/local /dev/hda8 2063504 729108 1229576 38% /usr/share /dev/hda10 521748 154348 340896 32% /usr/src /dev/hda5 497829 76114 396013 17% /var
-PG
On 10/18/2002 9:53 AM, Richard Goodman <dick@goodman1.net> wrote:
I have four RH servers, two 7.0 and two new 7.3 servers just put up last 6 weeks or less How painless would an upgrade of the older servers from 7.0->7.3 be? Any surprises I should know about? Any comments or advice? I've never done a version upgrade before.
I already have a CD with the most important security upgrades I used on the 7.3 servers after I had worm (Slapper/Cinik) problems.
Dick
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