[CentOS] I'm making the change to a new OS

TE Dukes tdukes at palmettoshopper.com
Tue Jan 24 12:52:26 UTC 2017



> -----Original Message-----
> From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Johnny
> Hughes
> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 7:25 AM
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] I'm making the change to a new OS
> 
> On 01/23/2017 07:47 PM, TE Dukes wrote:
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Mark
> >> LaPierre
> >> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2017 7:30 PM
> >> To: centos at centos.org; Mark LaPierre
> >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] I'm making the change to a new OS
> >>
> >> On 01/22/17 23:12, TE Dukes wrote:
> >>> Decided to upgrade to 7.x.
> >>>
> >>> It's been a good ride 6.x, but you're living in the past.
> >>>
> >>> Everything is backed up, just waiting on my new 4TB HD to arrive for
> >>> a fresh install.
> >>>
> >>> See ya'll on the other side!!
> >>>
> >>
> >> I just built a brand new Centos 7 machine for a friend this weekend.
> >> I did a net install.  All went well once I figured my way through the
> >> installer.  It took me a while to find the button that I need to
> >> click to turn on the network connection.
> >>
> > Actually, I've been running a centos 7 vm for a couple months now on a
6.8
> system with no problems. Just been scared to do a fresh install because it
> can't be upgraded from 6.8.
> >
> > I'm saving the old HD just in case I need to revert back.
> >
> > This will be the first time in 20 yrs that I'll try 'custom'
partitioning. I've
> always gone the default route. I want to setup extra space/partition for
> backups until I can build a stand alone NAS.
> >
> > I hope all my config files in 6.8 work in 7.3.
> 
> If you are running httpd, you are likely going to need to modify the
config
> files.
> 
> This page will help:
> 
> https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html
> 
> But there are many other apache 2.2 to 2.4 upgrading help sites available.
> 
> 
Thanks for the heads up and link.

I don't really do anything special with apache except for my test website
that use a .htaccess file to rewrite for seo urls.

I am more concerned with mail and dns. Fail2ban wasn't an easy setup getting
rules to work. Then there's iptables and ipset.

Hope I can hit the ground running.




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