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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:58:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM>
To: "Eric L. Hinson" <erich@ip.org>
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Subject: Re: upgrading 2.1.6 to 2.1.7 w/o interuption of service?
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On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Eric L. Hinson wrote:

Greetings all,

> I have several systems that I maintain for an ISP that I would like to
> upgrade to 2.1.7.  (one is a 2.1.6.1 machine, and the other is an older
> 2.1-STABLE (shortly after after 2.1.0-RELEASE came out).
> 
> However, I'm unclear as to which method I should use to facilitate this
> switch with as little disruption to users as possible.  Any insight would
> be most appreciated.
> 
> Thanks for your time and help with this matter.

	What I did was the following:

Have two login sessions on the machine then:

1) make a backup copy of /etc
2) kill the sendmail process since mail will be returned unknown.
3) cd /usr/temp
4) ftp each distribution separately in 2.1.7-RELEASE
5) chmod +x * ; ./install.sh
6) rm -rf *
7) repeat steps 4-7
8) cd /etc 
9) compare backup copy of /etc to the new copy and commit the diffs
   make sure you restore the master.passwd, passwd, pwd.db, spwd.db
   from the backup to /etc
  
10) Compile a new kernel and shutdown and reboot the machine.

	Hope this helps.


Cheers,
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