Update a CentOS 5 virtual server to CentOS 5.6
I would like to update a CentOS 5 virtual server to CentOS 5.6
I've never done this before and I would be greatful for any hints/tips/guides on the process. I can't format my system as I have software/files that I need on there so I would like to upgrade rather than to install from scratch. The CentOS documentation seems to come straight from RedHat and suggests that I connect to the RHN network, which is not possible as i'm using the free CentOS release. Is the procedure the following, sorry but I really don't know. How safe is this procedure, if it works : Code:
modify yum.conf to point to a 5.6 mirror and then perform the following commands : |
Running 'yum update' should do. I just upgraded one guest on VMware server and all went OK. Best read the release notes first though.
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Back up your important files and - in particular - make a tarball of your existing /etc, just in case.
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# tar cfz /root/good-etc.tgz /etc |
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- iscsi and iscsid: disable both if not required, - haldaemon: reverting back to old startup mantra "/usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes --verbose=no --use-syslog" works OK for me, - setroubleshootd showing [avc.WARNING] could not open any audit sockets (/var/run/audispd_events, /var/run/audit_events), retry in 60 seconds error meaning the /var/run/audit_events socket does not exist: commenting out the binary_protocol_socket_path line in /etc/setroubleshoot/setroubleshoot.cfg makes the warning disappear. |
I also followed this procedure to update my PHP RPM's to 5.2.x.
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PHP_5.1_To_5.2 |
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