Re: Any of the sysadmins here fancy a bit of freelance work?
I can, if you like. We can skip the eternal love, though :D On 15 Dec 2010, at 01:27, David Cantrell wrote: I have a hideously out-of-date Debian 3.1 machine that needs upgrading to latest-stable. Any of you lovely people fancy doing it in exchange for copious beer tokens and my eternal love? -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic
Re: Any of the sysadmins here fancy a bit of freelance work?
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 5:27 PM, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: I have a hideously out-of-date Debian 3.1 machine that needs upgrading to latest-stable. Any of you lovely people fancy doing it in exchange for copious beer tokens and my eternal love? Ouch! That's not *terribly* far behind (2 major revisions), but it's far enough that you probably want to consider wiping and re-installing it. What're your options for that? I'd be happy to give you a hand in exchange for beer!
Re: Any of the sysadmins here fancy a bit of freelance work?
On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 01:27 +, David Cantrell wrote: I have a hideously out-of-date Debian 3.1 machine that needs upgrading to latest-stable. Any of you lovely people fancy doing it in exchange for copious beer tokens and my eternal love? It's probably worth giving an indication of the services running on it as that will determine how easily the upgrade can be done.
Re: Any of the sysadmins here fancy a bit of freelance work?
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 01:27:52AM +, David Cantrell wrote: I have a hideously out-of-date Debian 3.1 machine that needs upgrading to latest-stable. Any of you lovely people fancy doing it in exchange for copious beer tokens and my eternal love? Update the sources.list and do a dist-upgrade, fix the inevitable breakage, and you're pretty much done. I'd suggest going via etch so that package renames and splits get picked up, but otherwise it should just work. Unless you're running X, at which point I run away screaming and suggest you buy a Mac. The inevitable breakage turned out to be Exim and Apache for me. Both packages have sprouted a rather funky Debian configuration scheme which doesn't quite work, although Apache is on rather less crack than Exim.
Any Kernel wizards out there?
Hello there monglers and mongelettes, There are some oddball machines here running on HP server hardware with openSUSE 2.6.22 kernels that like crashing randomly. My feeble attempts to switch them over to a different, freshly built kernel with kexec/kdump slappen on it have so far been in vain.. mainly because the storage doesn't want to play ball. So,, if any gurus out there fancy some very good money and a free all-expenses trip to Munich to wrestle some of these beasts down... drop me a private e-mail and I'll get you talking to The People. - Stefan
