On 01/09/2012 05:00 AM, Brian Mathis wrote: > On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Rob Kampen<rkampen at kampensonline.com> wrote: >> Hi List, >> Early in dec I was forced to upgrade one of my server systems - >> initially built in 2004 on an intel server mb it finally failed. >> Under some time pressure, I replaced the mb etc with a 64 bit asus >> system and did a repair of the linux system upon reboot with a 64 bit DVD. >> As one can imagine there were some headaches as the kernel was now 64 >> bit, but yum and friends were still 32 bit. >> I managed to upgrade the required packages to 64 bit, rebooted the >> server a few times and all appeared to function ok. >> BTW the server runs bind, apache, postfix, dovecot, mysql, php and >> related stuff. >> >> I have now relocated the server in a lights off situation and myself to >> the other side of the planet. >> Why all the history - well as I ssh into the box and do my weekly yum >> updates, I find that there have been no updates, however all my other >> servers have had multiple updates. >> >> Thus I did a rpm -qa and find there are only 65 rpm files listed - they >> are all 64 bit or noarch - none of the core server files are present. >> >> How do I systematically update all the files from 32 bit to 64 bit? >> As I am unable to physically get in front of this machine, I have zero >> room for error - and need the machine to be up and operating each >> business day. >> My google searches have not given me any hits that help. >> Any help, directions, things to be aware off etc - appreciated. >> TIA > > I can't help with the 64-bit upgrade, though I suspect that will be > extremely touchy if it's possible, but for a server like that which is > business critical, you MUST add some kind of remote console access. > There is no question of "if", only "when" you will need it, like a > reboot that needs you to press F1 or something. Attempting to perform > this kind of upgrade without that would be very foolish. > Noted and agreed, unfortunately life stuff happened, so now I will look for a separate power device that I can remote control. > If it's Dell you can add a DRAC card (used ones are not that > expensive), or any other brand name will have something similar. If > it's not a brand name you can get pretty close using a Lantronix > Spider and a remote power switch. The system board might already have > a BMC with some ability for remote access. > > Fix the remote access problem before trying the 64-bit upgrade. > > > ❧ Brian Mathis > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos