[CentOS] 5.0 -> 5.1

Jim Perrin jperrin at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 17:01:19 UTC 2008


On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Ashley M. Kirchner <ashley at pcraft.com> wrote:

>     I have a production server that's currently running 5.0 with all
>  updates.  What's the easiest, or perhaps best way to upgrade it to 5.1,
>  with minimal down time?  The downtime is critical, so I need to have it
>  be a short as possible.  I can live with an hour or two, but larger is
>  going to be a pain.

If you've been running yum update, you're already at 5.1. You may just
need to reboot to load the new kernel.

If you're unsure if you actually are running centos 5.1, run 'rpm -q
centos-release' and you should see 5.1.0- in the release string.

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George Orwell



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