[96539] in RedHat Linux List
Re: should I upgrade?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Mead)
Tue Oct 27 20:41:49 1998
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 20:40:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.981027204342.26770A-100000@www.fortconsulting.com>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
Reply-To: redhat-list@redhat.com
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Eric Fort wrote:
> I am currently running RH-4.2 . I want to upgrade to a current sendmail,
> update the errata, get pine updated and working, update the libraries so
> current stuff will work...and so on. when I try to upgrade a package
> using rpm the version of rpm is not up to date so I upgraded that - it
> gave errors and didn't install. ie. it needed about 5 other packages
> updated so I could install it. many of the other things that need updated
> need updated libraries. IS IT TIME TO UPGRADE? WOULD AN UPGRADE TO 5.X
> BE A MORE PAINLESS WAY TO SOLVE MY PROBLEMS?
>
Having talked to you last week I know that your box is in production
so I'll give you the simple answer... It ain't that simple.
What's your hardware configuration?
How are your drives partitioned? Is /home on it's own partition?
Lotta stuff to consider.
On the flip side... I'm using 5.1 with the 2.0.35 Red Hat rpm based
kernel and all of the errata, in production. I had no serious
problems at all bringing it up (it was all new hardware in August).
Minor hassles with the Adaptec 2940UW driver and I ended up using an
NE2000 compatible NIC. Instead of the 3Com I started off with (driver
hassles and I had no time for it!) Right now I'm running sendmail
8.9.1-2, BIND v8, and Red Hat's Secure Web Server (just port 80 right
now... no 443) hosting lists and vdom's as well as my own domain with
0 hassles!
It's a PII 233 with 128MB of RAM. It's all good. I've got 30 days
of uptime since the last kernel recompile and there's only been one
hiccup which I haven't figured out yet. It happened yesterday during
all of the alter.net network hassles... sendmail just quit working
and there's nothing in the logs to indicate why. I just dunno!
Other than kernel compilation and a hurricane related power outage my
uptime is 100% on this machine so I have 0 complaints.
Cheers!
--
Chuck Mead, CEO - Moongroup Consulting, Inc. <chuck@moongroup.com>
http://www.moongroup.com/
http://www.moongroup.com/unix/
Q: What's tiny and yellow and very, very, dangerous?
A: A canary with the super-user password.
--
PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!
http://www.redhat.com http://archive.redhat.com
To unsubscribe: mail redhat-list-request@redhat.com with
"unsubscribe" as the Subject.
