Re: upgrading form RHL 7.3 to RHL 9

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam Trinity Edu>]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 01:06:24AM -0400, Dene Ulmschneider wrote:
> Hi there all-
> 
> I am currently running a system with RHL 7.3 and want to upgrade to RHL 9. 
> I have never done an upgrade on a Red Hat system before and would like to 
> ask if there is anything that I should know regarding the upgrade.
> 
> My biggest concern is overwriting anything that I already have setup on the 
> system. Right now it is only used a monitoring system for the internal 
> network using Nagios. This in turn required changes to some key system 
> files like the httpd.conf file as well as some others. Will all of these 
> changes be over written? Will I have to configure Nagios again? If so - is 
> there a way that I can "preserve" the current config and then replace it 
> after the upgrade or is it not worth the effort?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any info that you can all offer.
> 
> Dene Ulmschneider
iWE just did this and the problem is RH 9 has alot of technology that
will not be in you upgrade. The OpenOffice Suite is one example. Of
course you can add these by hand but it is a pain.
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