On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 21:46 +0300, fabian dacunha wrote:
Dear All,
I am curently running a CENTOS server with the following setup
CentOS release 5 (Final) Kernel 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5xen on an i686
Stating the obvious, you are WAY behind on updates, including many security patches.
bind-9.3.3-10.el5 sendmail-8.13.8-2.el5 apache httpd-2.2.3-11.el5_1.centos.3 MailScanner ver 4.66.5 ClamAV 0.92 SpamAssassin version 3.2.4 SquirrelMail ver 1.4.13
Now all this have been workin perfectly fine for a long time.
now if i do a yum upgrade i see the following
Install 29 Package(s) Update 415 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s)
and the total download size is abt 579 M
i jus wanted to know if i could SAFELY apply the updates since its a live server running our companys primary DNS and mail server
I'd have a bootable backup ready before trying this. See the section on "cloning" in http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/MigrationGuide.
has any body done this b4
Lots of people have updated by now.
i know the Centos will be upgraded to 5.2
but has anybody applied these updates and its been workin fine after reboot and also about the various software currently running on the server apprecite your help and asvise
Have had two mysterious crashes of my main server since upgrading yesterday, one on kernel-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.x86_64 and the second on kernel-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5.x86_64. Just quietly dies with nothing in the logs. Several other upgraded systems (all i386) seem to be fine. Still searching for any other reports of problems.
Phil