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RE: should I upgrade?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Mead)
Wed Oct 28 17:18:58 1998
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 17:17:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com>
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On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Himebaugh, Jon, CON, OASD(HA)/TMA wrote:
> Would you please tell me where I can obtain the 2.0.35 RedHat RPM?
>
I got mine from ftp://sunsite.unc.edu
>
> > -----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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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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