I have been trying to set up a RH7.3 web/mail server. Apache and MySQL worked with just minor config hickups (lack of php-mysql support, that is apparently a well known problem with RH (according to a readme))
Apache and MySQL are now in production, and, work well but I have struck a number of 'strange' and unrelated problems, such as: - changing user's passwd on command line crashes the passwd utility; workaround: use Webmin; solution: unresolved - unable to compile CourierIMAP, corrupt file in gcc; solution: reinstall gcc - unable to access Postfix's SMTP 25 externally; solution: reinstall Postfix this leads me to think that there is something seriously flawed with this system, and unless I 'do something' soon, this server will bite my backside at the time I least need it. as I saw on the list, SLUG was searching for a topic for the next meeting, so, I thought maybe I'll bring this machine as worthwile project ? ;)> seriously though: I guess I should reinstall the operating system itself, at the very least, and, the other stuff can be re-installed if and when needed. thus I need some pointers and suggestions on re-installing this is a RH73 with all relevant 'up2date' installed do I boot from RH7.3 CD, select 'UPGRADE', DESELECT apps, following completion run 'up2date' ? OR ? RH 'upgrade' preservers all /etc and /home, as far as I know? Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
