Richard Megginson wrote: > Jim Summers wrote: >> Rob Crittenden wrote: >>> Richard Megginson wrote: >>>> Jim Summers wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello List, >>>>> >>>>> I am closing in on my target date to switch over to FDS. On my >>>>> test machines I have been running with FC4. I need to re-install >>>>> the operating system and when I do I will have to use RHEL4. >>>>> >>>>> My plan was to shutdown the DS. >>>>> Then make a tarball of /opt/fedora-ds and several other directories. >>>>> Next re-install with RHEL4 >>>>> Drop in my iptables >>>>> Install fedora-ds and verify the OS / performance settings. >>>>> Then extract my fedora-ds tarball >>>>> and then hold my breath and start the DS service(s) and presto all >>>>> is well??? >>>> >>>> I have no idea. It should work, but I really don't know if there >>>> are any runtime dependencies in the FDS FC4 RPM binaries that will >>>> break when run on RHEL4. >> >> I plan on installing the FDS with the rpm from: >> >> http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Download >> and use the fedora-ds-1.0.2-1.RHEL4.i386.opt.rpm >> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Does this sound like a feasible approach? >>>>> >>>>> I am a little unsure if it will break any of my configured ssl >>>>> stuff. Which is a basic self-signed scenario using the >>>>> /opt/fedora-ds/shared/bin/certutil for the key generation. >>>> >>>> I don't think that will be a problem as long as you don't change the >>>> hostname of the machine. >>> >>> Also note that upgrading could be a problem since you aren't doing a >>> standard RPM installation to begin with. You might be able to "trick" >>> it by installing the Fedora RPM and then untarring over top of that. >> >> Ah, Now I see the problem. What about only untarring the following >> directories from my backed up DS from /opt/fedora-ds: >> >> admin-serv >> alias >> slapd-[hostname] > Add shared/config, clients/orgchart/config.txt, clients/dsgw/context, > clients/dsgw/pbconfig, and clients/dsgw/config to that list as well. This worked. The only snag I ran into was the pid file in the slapd-[host]/logs directory. Permissions looked ok, but until I actually removed it did it fire up and run. Replicaton and all seems to be working. I still have my other replica to redo so I will have a chance to double verify this migration path. Will post if anything bad happens. Thanks Again, -- Jim Summers School of Computer Science-University of Oklahoma -------------------------------------------------
