Upgrading from Redhat 7.3 to 8.0

[Darrell Shandrow]

Hi Aaron,

OK!  This does makes sense.  Thanks for the explanation.


On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Aaron Howell wrote:

> There's actually a logical reason for this.
> One of the criticisms of RedHat in the past has been that by default, their systems (especially their server installs), have been way too open.
> Redhat has taken this on board, and has adopted a stance of enabling minimum functionality by default,
> then from there on in, allowing the user to open things as they desire.
> This is the reason for things like the sendmail change,
> by default a brand new RedHat system shouldn't allow access to anything from anywhere except localhost.
> I actually think RedHat should be applauded for listening to its users, because the openness of standard RedHat installs was a well known and well exploited problem.
> Just to clarify.
> regards
> Aaron
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 06:30:49PM -0700, 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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