If it ain't broke...

[tmallardi]

Just over a year ago, I migrated to a dedicate server prebundled with Cpanel. I am set to Automatic Release tree. Other than adding RBLs to Exim, I have not tweaked anything on this server.

I'm curious to know if should consider any updates at this time? My concern is that if I continue on "auto-pilot" so to speak, will I eventualy find myself in a difficult situation in terms of the kernel, MySQL etc.

Some of my current versions are as follows:

Kernel: 2.6.10-1.771_FC2
MySQL: 4.0.25-0
Apache: 1.3.33

I don't have a very strong Linux background, which is why I'm on cPanel. I'd very much appreciate any comments regarding the need for updating, outside of cPanels auto updates.

thanks,
Tim

[webignition]

cPanel's nightly run of /scripts/upcp should sort out most updates. /scripts/upcp should run yum for you each night which should handle most OS apps for you.

Since you're on FC2, you'd need to change your update mirrors on /etc/yum.conf. FC2 died some months ago and since then it's being maintained by the Fedora Legacy Project.

You should follow their guide for updating /etc/yum.conf to ensure that you're getting all the OS updates you should.

http://fedoralegacy.org/
http://fedoralegacy.org/docs/yum-fc2.php

[tmallardi]

(This is a bit lower level than I'm used to...)

Here's my current /etc/yum.conf.

There's quite a difference from mine versus the one listed on http://fedoralegacy.org/docs/yum-fc2.php

Should I make mine match theirs exactly, except for retaining my "exclude" line?


thanks



-------------------------------------------------------------------------
[main]
exclude=courier* apache* mod_ssl* httpd* perl mysql* php* spamassassin* kernel* exim*
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=fedora-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
retries=20

[base]
name=Fedora Core - - Base
baseurl=ftp://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/

[updates-released]
name=Fedora Core - - Released Updates
baseurl=ftp://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/

#[updates-testing]
#name=Fedora Core - - Unreleased Updates
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/$releasever/$basearch/

[tmallardi]

For anyone else who may use this thread in the future, I made the following changes in my /etc/yum.conf file.

[main]
distroverpkg=redhat-release

[base]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - Base
baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/$releasever/os/$basearch

[updates]
name=Fedora Core $releasever updates
baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/$releasever/updates/$basearch

[legacy-utils]
name=Fedora Legacy utilities for Fedora Core $releasever
baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/$releasever/legacy-utils/$basearch


Everything appears to working fine now.