On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Tom Weniger wrote: > On Sat, 2004-04-12 at 05:54 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > any thoughts on whether this technique should still work? i'll find > > out in an hour or two, i suspect, it would just be nice to have some > > advance warning if there are some surprises in store. > > > > rday > > > > p.s. i'm configuring selinux for "warning" on the new system. if i > > enabled it, would that be an issue here for some reason? > > > Greetings Robert, > > I think the technique would still work. I have had no problems on my > small NFS home network. I am running with SELinux enabled (targeted). > The only variation I have used is updating the clients via NFS install > and the server last. My network is small enough that I can update > the /etc files by hand from a checklist. I hope the install goes well. seemed to work fine. my only concern was that, traditionally, i'd just restore the previous account info in the /etc files. i just never know when a new release might introduce extra authentication files somewhere that i've never heard of. rday
