Re: Confused by up2date

Thanks peoples for all your responses. I'm enjoying my slurp!
When I upgrade, I always do a reinstall from CD. My friend was
looking for an "easy" option I think, to get himself to the latest
version. Of course, the easy option is to buy Trog some real
beers and get him to do the upgrade :-)

At home, I have only ever done one full upgrade, when I went from
RH7.1 to FC3. I've put the odd rpm on, if I've needed a new library,
but generally I leave systems alone for as long as possible.
After all, we aren't running M$ O/S, which needs regular patching
just to keep it working.

Just for a laugh, I ran up2date on two systems at work, with odd
results. If you are going to fiddle, break a work box not your
own personal system! Both of these systems had been installed
identically with FC3 and they had been kept identical. After the
upgrades, one system had suffered a timezone change (from GMT to EDT).
Dunno why but it wasn't a major hiccup. The other was more
worrying. After the upgrade, only root could log in. Actually
I suspect that users authenicated locally could login, but users
authenicated via NIS couldn't; we use NIS exclusively. As a
consequence of running up2date, /etc/selinux/config had changed
from SELINUX=disabled to SELINUX=enforcing. On this box, the
timezone remain as GMT. I'd always thought that random config
changes only occured on M$ systems (and I've seen some truly
bizarre self changes). Looks like I was wrong. Oh well, I learned
again why I keep a bottle in my bottom drawer.

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