I started a new position and have inherited a system of 50+ Linux boxes running Fedora 4, Fedora 7, Fedora 13, and RHEL 5.x. It's about 1/2 physical and 1/2 virtual machines in a production and dev/test environment. The systems are application/DNS/web/database servers without a great deal of user login.
I'm putting together a plan for hardening, patching, etc and would like to get folks thoughts... Regarding the Fedora systems, are there reasons not to upgrade these machines to the most recent Fedora release? I've read about fresh install vs. upgrade but it will be a while before I would have the bandwidth to migrate to fresh installs. Thoughts/experiences/opinions on upgrading the Fedora machines? For the most part, the systems have not been kept up to date on updates/patching. I would like to get everything onto a regular update/patching schedule and set up a local repository/mirror from the Redhat Network. Can the Fedora systems update from a local repository pulled from Redhat (the RHEL systems are licensed)? Or would there need to be two repos? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Herb -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules or http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf)
