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Re: should I upgrade?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Toby Herring)
Wed Oct 28 09:11:48 1998
Reply-To: "Toby Herring" <therring@syncroflo.com>
From: "Toby Herring" <therring@syncroflo.com>
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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:14:34 -0500
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-----Original Message-----
From: Himebaugh, Jon, CON, OASD(HA)/TMA <Jon.Himebaugh@tma.osd.mil>
To: 'redhat-list@redhat.com' <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 28, 1998 8:57 AM
Subject: RE: should I upgrade?
>Would you please tell me where I can obtain the 2.0.35 RedHat RPM?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jon Himebaugh
>Jon.Himebaugh@tma.osd.mil
>(303) 676-3798
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chuck Mead [SMTP:chuck@moongroup.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 6:41 PM
>> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: should I upgrade?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
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