Herb French wrote: > Esteemed Colleagues- > > I have two Red Hat boxes that have been in use for several years as web > servers, using the L.A.M.P. approach. > > (1) running RH 7.3 > (1) running RH 9
I would recommend: Look at what each system s actually doing. Do a fresh install of your chosen distribution (this is a great time to go to something that is not Red Hat, if you so choose), and put in only those services that you actually require. Take a look at other stale data, such as user accounts. Youcan clear out those people that left five years ago. They don't need accounts. /home, /usr/local, and somet things under /var are about the only things you need to copy over. You mentioned LAMP, so you are basically looking at webserver, database, and CGI. Set up a test box, install it, get the data over, pound it: make sure it works like the old one. Pick a date to do the swapover, then swap the system over. Do the same with the other on. The RH9 -> current will likely be easier. the RH7.3 is more critical to update. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
