[ILUG] Mandrake 8.1 against 7.2

[john.allen at online.ie]

Niall O Broin wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 10:08:14AM +0100, Stephane Dudzinski wrote:
> 
> 
>>I've been considering upgrading our server to 8.1 one day (i'll wait for
>>more feedback first ;). I was wondering if anybody would have that kind
>>of configuration @work : 
>>
>>Intel Xeon arch with scsi controllers and RAID conf under mandrake 7.2
>>with reiserFS ?
>>
> 
> Personally, I'm awfully loath to upgrade production servers unless and until
> there's a compelling reason to do so i.e. you absolutely need so feature
> which is only available by doing the upgrade. I can think of a few people
> who'll be awfully pissed off if you break their server :-)
> 
> 


True, but I upgraded my server here at home from 8.0 (patched) to 8.1,
and it only took about an hour of fiddling around to get it fully
operational again.

Problems were as follows (at least the ones I can remember)
1. The update to the dhcpd zapped my dhcpd.leases file
so dhcpd would not start. Created an empty on, and all was OK

2. Squid now runs as nobody.nobody, where as in 8.0 it ran
as squid.squid; so I changed the squid.conf to run as squid.squid

3. pppd does not add a default route if one already exists, so
I added a "route del default" to my pppd initscript.

4. I installed with high security, so basically no services started
on reboot, even though I has specified loads, so I did an msec 3 to
go back to Medium security.


> 
> A bientot,
> 
> 
> Niall
> 
> 



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