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I work for MessageLabs [messagelabs.com] in Toronto, ON, Canada. I write spam filters, MTA software, high performance network software, string matching algorithms, and other cool stuff mostly in Perl and C.
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I've finally decided I need to upgrade ted, the server that runs axkit.org and a bunch of other sites. It's running Mandrake Linux 7.0, but with a whole bunch of personally installed software. Sadly there are no longer any security updates for 7.0. I'm not entirely sure what my upgrade strategy should be. I sort of wish there was something like apt, where I could just upgrade automatically. I tried changing my version number in
So what I think I need to do is recommission an old server (all my other machines are laptops, and in-use or useless), and get that setup with all the sites, email, dns, etc, and swap them over. Then do the upgrade offline, then get all those services back in place, then switch back again. Needless to say I'm extremely nervous about all of this. Any suggestions or war stories most welcome.
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
just do it. (Score:2)
Two good alternatives:
1) Do the swap thing as you said; if you do it right then swapping back will just be copying over a bunch of files. I like to make installations of projects as self contained as possibly for that reason. On FreeBSD I usually make a perl/apache+mod_perl installation in
2)
-- ask bjoern hansen [askbjoernhansen.com], !try; do();
Re:just do it. (Score:2)
Re:just do it. (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe you could just buy an extra disk. 80G go for really cheap this days, even in France. They also tend to fill-up just as fast as 40M used to a couple of years ago, darn MP3s and AVIs (not to mention people would crank up modules by the dozen)!