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Sounds like a good plan David! Good luck with the upgrade. Mike Shaw Senior AS/400 Technical Support North American Mortgage Santa Rosa, CA ----- Original Message ----- > Folks: > > In the very near future I'm going to attempt an upgrade of the mail system > to a new version of Linux ... this will certainly cause some downtime and > could possibly cause some disruption in the mail processing. > > I will endeavor to minimize the disruption, but please do not be surprised > if there are problems. > > If a message does not show up on the list in a reasonable amount of time > (24-48 hours) simply re post it. > > If there is an extended outage (very unlikely) status reports will be > posted to http://www.midrange.com. > > My current plan is to implement the change tomorrow (Sunday, 1/30). > > For those who are interested: I'm currently running Slackware 3.6 (very > old) and want to upgrade to Redhat 6.1. The slackware system is > extraordinarily unstable and I want to implement some things that require > a lot more stability. > > I'm currently configuring the RH install on a spare hard IDE HD (in another > computer) and will simply replace the SCSI drive the OS is now running on > with the new drive. > > All list data resides on a separate drive, so recovery of the system will > simply putting the SCSI drive back. > > David > > -- > | Internet: david@midrange.com > | WWW: http://www.midrange.com/david > | > | This message was written and delivered using 100% > | post-consumer (recycled) data bits. > > +--- > | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! > | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. > | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. > | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. > | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com > +--- > +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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