On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 08:59:37AM -0700, 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 > > My network folks are now taking a much stronger look at everything attached > to the network, and their Foundstone scan has identified several issues > with my Linux web servers. Mostly issues with OpenSSH and PHP. > > Would it seems logical to go ahead and upgrade these to Fedora Core 5? > > If so, has anyone made the jump from RH 7.3/9 to Fedora Core 5? > Other than a complete backup, could someone outline the process? > Any "beware" issues?
Forget about upgrading. Yes, there is an "upgrade path" to convert old Red Hats to fedora, and then upgrade each Core of fedora up one. You're looking at *hours* of work. I upgraded one of my machines from Core 2 to Core 3, and a bunch of stuff broke. I spent an hour frantically fixing one service after another :-) Do yourself an enormous favor... build a new machine with CENTOS http://www.centos.org/ CENTOS has a support life measured in years, not months, so you won't quickly wind up with a machine that can't be updated via yum/up2date. CENTOS looks and acts just like any other Red Hat-ish distribution, so you don't need to climb a learning curve. -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * *********************************************************************** -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
