Re: New install, need good policy and advice
- From: Ohmster <root@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:55:27 -0600
Steve Ackman <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:slrnhl5hfi.sio.steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
I don't suppose I can reuse the httpd.conf file from fc6 on fc12, can
I?
Can you? Common sense and experience would tend
to indicate that if it's the same major release, it'd
probably be worth a shot. If you're upgrading from
Apache 1.x to Apache 2.x, it might be less likely.
(To be sure, you might want to try the README and if
Red Hat did it like Debian, notice that httpd.conf
is no longer used, that apache2.conf takes its place.)
Steve!!! No, I am not a troll, by any means. You might be the guy that
helped me years ago when I could not build my nvidia drivers because
redhat stopped with kernel headers and the driver would not build. I had
been given instructions by someone that had a Linux machine with an
nvidia card on it that wanted to help. We used the kernel src file,
installed it, I believe, and had to do something else with it to make it
work but it sure did work. If that was you, thank you! I got it working
this time with Fedora 12 by using kmod-nvidia and yum but it took me all
day to find the right ones to download and repos to setup. Someone posted
a pdf file with instructions on how he set his Fedora 12 up with nvidia
drivers and also DVD, mp3, flash, and some other important things in it.
If it was you and you still have the text file or remember how to get the
kernel headers back in fedora, please do, by all means, tell how and I
will do it right away. At this time I cannot build an nvidia kernel
module on my system, kernel headers not found. The rpmfusion module seems
to work quite well now that it is in but I miss not being able to build
because I have no kernel headers. :(
[..]
How long will it take to copy your fc12 httpd.conf to
http.conf12.orig, and copy your fc6 httpd.conf over to
your new install? (Less time than it took to write that
post I'll wager)
Is it worth it to find out the answer to your question
yourself by simply trying?
Would you rather find the answer for yourself in a
couple minutes, or spend much longer writing a plea
to have others do your homework for you?
I opened the old conf and the new conf side by side in two vim windows
and made the changes into the new config file by copy and paste. I put a
new 400Gb IDE drive in the machine prior to installing fc12 and mounted
the old drive on /mnt/old_sys and this worked *very* well. I actually
used the fedora 12 Live CD to boot into the machine and rename the LVM
disk that was there before so it would not conflict with the new install
just in case. Turns out that I did not need it, the volume groups now
incorporate the machine name into the volume group name. The side by side
copy and paste worked very well and helped me to get rid of some
redundancy errors that I had in the old conf file.
This time I do not want to break yum and be able to keep my system up
to date, any suggestions or tips on how to keep a Fedora system
current would sure be nice. Fedora upgrades almost 2 times a year and
that is a lot to keep up with.
It is???
For me it is when the distro goes EOL on me. I tend to let it go far too
long and then updating from fedora 6 to fedora 12 seems like too much of
a change, the x server is now radically different than before so I have
to do a clean install. Now it is all clean and up to date, I will use yum
to keep it that way.
I run Debian Testing on the desktop. I update it a
couple times a week.
I have PCLinuxOS (rpm based) on the laptop. I
update that maybe once a month.
FreeBSD on the server machine. Check for updates
daily.
Updates take all of... what? Five minutes? Maybe
ten? (Clock time, not your time... it's even less
of your time.)
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< Do I smell a droll or a troll? >
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No, no one is doing any homework for me. I have a full plate with working
like a dog to support a home that is mortgaged to well over the value of
the home and the luxury of spending hours and hours, learning and having
fun with Linux is something that I do not have much of these days, so I
cherish the time that I do have.
No troll either, you can easilly do a google for ohmster and you will see
me plenty of times, asking for and sometimes giving help in Linux. Take
care Steve, it is good to see that you are still around.
Oh! Should I ask this in another thread? I now have selinux on the system
and cannot do anything without it stopping me. I spent all night last
night trying to get samba shares working so I can use my windows box and
Dreamweaver with the Linux box and although everything seemed okay, I
kept getting messages in Windows that the share cannot be found, even
though the address was good. I also now had a yellow star in my gnome
desktop taskbar at the top and it is Selinux, telling me that it has
blocked 10 attempts to gain access. I turned off selinux for a moment and
the shares poped right open, that is what is stopping it. Same thing for
my webserver, selinux is killing that as well. I want to setup FTP and no
doubt selinux will stop me. Question is, do I need Selinux and should I
leave it on or just turn it off and uninstall it so that I can get my
servers up and running? If I do need to keep selinux, is there a decent
guide somewhere on how to make it work for me instead of against me? I
look in the Selinux Admin panel in gnome and there are like 20 different
things you can check for apache and each check mark takes minutes to
accept and return control of the PC again. There has to be a better
way...
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~Ohmster
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