[lug] Why Not Upgrade? (Was: Forwarding or routing question)

[Michael Deck]

All right, I'll take the bait. I'm running RH5.2 right now with (what seems
to me) a lot of added-on packages, most of which were built from source.
It's taken me almost half a year, albeit nowhere near full-time, to get
this machine configured to do exactly what I want it to do. I haven't kept
any notes about what I've messed with in the conf files, and the conf files
seem to be spread all over (e.g. most are in /etc but named keeps its in
/var/named). I bought the KRUD distro intending to upgrade, but I got the
willies at the last minute. 

What keeps me back is the worry that somehow my configuration *just barely*
works, and it only works because of some quirk in 5.2, and if I upgrade to
6.0/KRUD it'll never work again. Or, that in upgrading some of the
configuration changes will be stomped and I won't know it. I could backup
/etc and /var but where else is config stored? 

What would you say to convince me that there's nothing to fear? 

-Mike

At 09:47 AM 10/12/99 -0600, you wrote:
>   Gahhh... I _hate_ that!  I figured out the problem.  
>You hate it?  I was going to congratulate you.  Also, thank you for
>describing the problem solution.
>
>I am intrigued.  Your machine is running RH 5.0 I believe.  Why don't
>you upgrade a bit?  Surely it is not cost - see
>http://www.LinuxMall.com/specials/FreeCD for example.  Is it
>impossible for you to shut down the machine or something?  Now I see
>that you recompiled the kernel, so it can't be that.  This is no big
>deal, of course, if you don't feel like telling; but it is a little
>puzzling.
>
>dajo
>
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Michael Deck
Cleanroom Software Engineering, Inc.