Upgrading from Redhat 7.3 to 8.0

[Jude DaShiell]

Oh, that was probably a concession to people who have had their linux
systems knocked over by email worms and were very new to linux to the
point they didn't know how to close down listening ports.



On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Darrell Shandrow wrote:

> Hi Janina,
>
> I had a RH 7.2 system with few modifications; the upgrade worked great!  I
> don't like the RH defaults, though...  Sometimes, their defaults seem a bit
> random.  For instance, RH decided that Sendmail didn't need to listen to any
> outside interfaces by default...  They didn't decide that in earlier
> releases.  Interesting...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 5:09 PM
> Subject: Re: Upgrading from Redhat 7.3 to 8.0
>
>
> > The Red Hat installer offers upgrade an existing installation as a choice.
> Whether or not it actually works depends on
> > how much tweaking and twiddling you've done to your existing setup. If
> you're ;running a beta release, it definitely
> > won't work.
> >
> > Peter Konka writes:
> > > From: Peter Konka <peter at cwareonline.com>
> > >
> > > Is it possible to upgrade from Redhat Linux 7.3 to 8.0?   and if so, is
> it
> > > easy?
> > >
> > >
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