On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 16:51 -0800, Robert Bell wrote: > I understand this will be one in a very long line of similar questions, > hopefully other have the same. I appreciate any help. > > My main concern upgrading to FC5 is existing software. I did read the > release notes, I see that MySQL 5 is now the default for example. How > can I know what will happen to these critical apps when I upgrade? > > *My FC4 system contains (that I care about)* > Apache w/ php > MySQL 4.1.1.6 > Cyrus IMAP > amavisd-new > Postfix > > I've had problems in the past with cyrus when the db version changes. I > envision many of these same issues, I'm just not sure how to be sure > everything will work. > > Not asking for a step-by-step, just some advice. > ---- back up everything you care about onto another disk somewhere...this means specifically... httpd.conf mysqld database dump *** very important *** imapd.conf postfix/main.cf probably a good idea to back up users' home directories too. Craig
