[rhn-users] upgrade question

[Benjamin Stewart]

If the system is not working properly I would advise strongly against 
simply doing an upgrade. If you really dont want to do any of this you 
should be able to track down where your system is having trouble. All 
the services that you mentioned have logs files and these should tell 
you what the problem is. Maybe try some of this first (even post to the 
group with questions) before you charge of down the reinstall path. Then 
again if you really want a more recent release then go nuts.... but I 
advise strongly against an upgrade on top of a system not working 
properly, this will probably make things worse, not better.

Regards
Ben

jarrod wrote:

>I believe at install time there is an option UPGRADE, for those users that
>are upgrading from an older to a newer distro. That is my 2cents.
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>From: <branchjonbranch at netscape.net>
>To: "Red Hat Network Users List" <rhn-users at redhat.com>
>Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 7:14 PM
>Subject: RE: [rhn-users] upgrade question
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>>Hi
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>>If you want to restore your system to the same version of Red Hat Linux
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>then you should first back up copies of the following;-
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>>/etc/passwd
>>/etc/shadow
>>/etc/group
>>/etc/hosts
>>/etc/samba/smb.conf
>>/etc/samba/smbpasswd
>>/etc/samba/smb.users
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>>as a minimum.
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>>If you have other services configured (such as dhcp for example) you can
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>also back up the configuration files for them also.
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>>You can also back up the entire /home directory.
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>>When you have re-installed from scratch it works best to open the
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>smbpasswd, passwd and shadow files in a text editor like gedit and copy and
>paste the additional account information into the new files the install
>created.
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>>For user accounts you will probably need to manually set the ownership for
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>each one as you restore accounts. This is a pain in the neck if you have a
>few hundred users but doesn´t take a horrendous time if you use the command
>line:-
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>>chown -vR username /home/username
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>>If you run and upgrade, to Red Hat 9 this will probably restore
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>everything. Its worth a try.
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>>Regards
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>>Jon Branch
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>>"Vortek, Eater Of Souls!" <vortek at the-bofh.com> wrote:
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>>>Hello,
>>>I'm just wondering if there is a way to either simply upgrade to a new
>>>version, or run a system restore of sorts. please excuse the story, but
>>>it will help explain my question I think.
>>>I had a power outage yesterday, and when I finally was able to reboot, a
>>>lot of my system seemed to be corrupt, for an example, samba no longer
>>>accepts connections from windows XP computers on my network, and cron
>>>doesn't seem to be running properly.
>>>I'm currently running redhat 8.0, and I'm just wondering if there is a
>>>way I can pop my redhat 8 disks in to my cdrom drive, and do some form
>>>of system restore, or if I can simply pop redhat 9 disks in and upgrade
>>>to rh9 preserving all my configuration files, and home folders.
>>>Any help will be greatly appriciated, thanks.
>>>
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