[96880] in RedHat Linux List
Re: should I upgrade?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Fort)
Thu Oct 29 19:09:37 1998
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 00:08:18 +0000 (GMT)
From: Eric Fort <efort@fortconsulting.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9810272030290.22996-100000@server.moongroup.com>
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Machine is a P90 W/ 32M RAM, Adaptec 2940 pci scsi card (nothing on the
scsi bus yet - dds2 due any day) 4 ide drives - 4G root partition fills
entire hard drive, cdu55e cd rom drive, ls 120 drive, and zip drive. one
floppy drive -1.44M. adaptec 3c503 network card that connects to the isp
hub at the colo site.
Eric Fort
PS
I can backup the entire root partition/hard disk to one of my isp's local
servers if not to scsi tape before I begin.
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Chuck Mead wrote:
> 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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