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Hi,

I'm running scalix v 10.0.5 on FC4. Should I first upgrade FC4 to FC 5 and then upgrade scalix to v11 or first Scalix and then Fedora?

Also, will the tomcat install that comes with FC5, upgrade the tomcat I'm presently running, Should I prevent this? any tips would be helpful.

Thanks

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Hi,
We need to upgrade FC4 to FC5 because v11 is not supported on FC4. Best way is to shutdown Scalix server, uninstall the server rpm using “rpm –e scalix-server “ then upgrade the system to FC5 , now run installer and choose yes for using the existing mail store .

Tomcat will not overwrite; it will create a backup file as .bak for the old tomcat and install the new tomcat.

FYI: - you will need to uninstall the server rpm becasue installer will not detect FC4 rpm on an FC5 system



Hope this help

thanks for the info !!

anand_joshi wrote:Hi,
We need to upgrade FC4 to FC5 because v11 is not supported on FC4. Best way is to shutdown Scalix server, uninstall the server rpm using “rpm –e scalix-server “ then upgrade the system to FC5 , now run installer and choose yes for using the existing mail store .

Tomcat will not overwrite; it will create a backup file as .bak for the old tomcat and install the new tomcat.

FYI: - you will need to uninstall the server rpm becasue installer will not detect FC4 rpm on an FC5 system



Hope this help

Also, I'm setting up a test / backup server for the upgrade, is there any reason why I can't do an rsync between the production server and backup server at night for the /var/opt/scalix directory. I would use the --delete switch to make sure that files deleted on the source server are also deleted on the destination server.

I would feel safer knowing there is a server ready to fail over to!

Thanks
manuel

I use rsync with avz or avvz switches. That'll compress it, and show you what's happening.

Be aware that you'll want permissions to remain the same. Meaning, the Scalix user ID needs to be the same on both systems. both /etc/group and /etc/passwd.

Kev.

anand_joshi wrote: Best way is to shutdown Scalix server, uninstall the server rpm using “rpm –e scalix-server “

....... Tomcat will not overwrite; it will create a backup file as .bak for the old tomcat and install the new tomcat.....

I've been testing the install on a test server so I have some questions now!

Any reason not to use scalix-installer and select 1 instead of "rpm –e scalix-server"?


Also, will 2,3,4 be upgraded correctly or is it also better to uninstall?

Finally, will the tomcat config file be reused (I recall setting a password etc in that config) .

Thanks for your helpfulness, my upgrade is at the end of March!