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