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. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
