[148365] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Linux Centralized Administration
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Fri Jan 13 06:59:13 2012
In-Reply-To: <CAAAwwbUire4e=kj+h1p-oHWnJFJeLh3dQyCorMZEFN+hEXkK7Q@mail.gmail.com>
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:58:10 -0500
To: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Sounds like a poorly designed package. Wordpress does a good job of allowing=
back end updates without impacting the services provided, even with databas=
e changes.=20
Part of a well designed and maintained system is the ability to do painless u=
pgrades.=20
Jared Mauch
On Jan 12, 2012, at 7:43 PM, Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com> wrote:
> Cacti/OpenNMS are good examples -- after a yum update to a new version,
> you must manually invoke, a potentially dangerous "installer" program or=
> web page has to be used, after a new update, config files, or database
> schema have to be edited or patched by hand; until you manually take some=
> action to "fix" the config, the application is broken after update.
> As soon as you attempt to restart the application it will shutdown OK, but=
> not come back up.
