I don't know if I'd say they "need" to do this, but I definitely second any idea that would allow an upgrade on a live system. We have 100's of stores with 5+ Linux boxes in each that we have no computer savy workers on site to walk through upgrades. Everything we do has to be through remote management. This would help facilitate this. Matt Fahrner Manager of Networking Burlington Coat Factory Pekka Savola wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Nitebirdz wrote: > > I've done it in a couple of cases, but I suppose it is wise to actually > > take the server out of production, perform the upgrade, make sure > > everything works fine and then put it back in production. Nevertheless, > > in those cases where I had to do it, I didn't experience any problems. > > Just my 0.02$; > > I think Red Hat Linux definitely needs some tools to upgrade a live > system. The main reason for this is that you can do it remotely. I can't > see anything more annoying than having to walk through every Linux > workstation / server here and perform the upgrade w/ CD-ROM / bootdisk, > when I just as well could do it via SSH. > > Compare this with the upgradeibility (is that a word? :) of FreeBSD > (cvsup, make world), and Linux has still ways to go. :-/ > > Actually, in Pinstripe, you _could_ do 'anaconda --method upgrade', but > it'll die: > > you're running me on a live system! that's incredibly stupid. > > So.. we might see this happening in the future. > > I think it'd be very unwise not to boot after such an exhaustive > upgrade; the chances are that if you don't and something crashes, you'll > end up in an uncontrollable mess. > > -- > Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] not those you stumble over and fall" > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-devel-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
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