On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 09:53:47AM -0400, Richard Goodman wrote: dick> I have four RH servers, two 7.0 and two new 7.3 servers just put up last 6 dick> weeks or less dick> How painless would an upgrade of the older servers from 7.0->7.3 be? Any dick> surprises I should know about? Any comments or advice? I've never done a dick> version upgrade before. I've had excellent results with upgrading servers. I've done upgrades from 4.0 through to 7.3 on my system, and 6.2 through to 7.3 on servers at work. Just be sure to read the README and RELEASE-NOTES on the new release before upgrading. I recommend making a backup copy of /etc that you can refer to in case something in the upgrade changes a file: cp -av /etc /etc.rh70 You will need to at least check over some config files after the upgrade. You can find all the ones that were changed or for which there are new ones available by doing this: find /etc -name '*.rpm*' -ls .rpmsave are backups of your original configs which were replaced during the upgrade. .rpmnew are new versions of config files that might need to be configured and put in place over your originals. /root/upgrade.log will also have a log of every package upgrade and if they replaced any config files or provided new config files. I wouldn't recommend running servers on 8.0 at the moment, since there are some kinks that haven't been worked out yet, the major one being rpm hangs. -- Charles R. Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886