There is a utility for xinetd that "does its best" to convert your inetd.conf into a
xinetd.conf
file. It's called xconv.pl (a perl script, yes). Supposedly it ships with xinetd but
it wasn't
installed, by Mandrake, with xinetd - not on my box anyway (7.2). So maybe if you
download and
install xinetd from www.xinetd.com or something, i don't know. Anyway, it's not
failsafe and you
still have to know how to read the xinetd.conf file.
My roadmap for upgrading was backing up all my config files my personal
system-change logs and
reinstalling. I figured the trouble of setting up a few things again (and by now i
have scripts
for many of those things) would be less than the trouble of hunting down obscure,
subtle problems
caused by the upgrade.
But i could have been totally wrong on that. It's just that i've done so much
reinstalling by now
that i'm "good" at it. Aside from the time it takes, it's no trouble at all.
Good luck,
j
--- A V Flinsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 19 February 2001 11:55, you wrote:
I have recently been happily installing CS all over the place, but I
have an old 7.1 machine that I want to bring current with 7.2. I was
wondering if there is anything out there that would help me get ready
for possible glitches. In particular I am things of problems with:
* The use of xinetd and the importing of old settings.
This did not cause me a problem.
* Changes to Apache WRT to using different directories than the
1.3.12 that shipped with 7.1.
Minor problem, I just reinstalled my old configs and chowned a few files
* Other weirdness caused by changes to the file system hierarchy.
Thanks in advance,
Minor problems here and there, nothing major however.
--
Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
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