[olug] Fedora 17

[Lou Duchez]

On 7/17/2012 10:19 AM, Lou Duchez wrote:
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>> Any odd experiences with updating to 17? i finally got around to it...
>>
>> Sam
>>
>
> I just upgraded five servers from F16 to F17 yesterday; the only thing 
> that's bitten me thus far is that the output of ifconfig has changed, 
> so I can't pick off a dynamic IP address in exactly the same way any 
> longer.  A couple bash scripts had to change, but on everything else, 
> so far so good.

Final scores: I upgraded my last two Fedora servers last night via yum; 
that makes 7 out of 7 servers that updated properly.  One new minor 
hassle popped up: the "named" service didn't start automatically, so I 
had to run "chkconfig" and start "named" manually.  This sort of thing 
happens often enough when you upgrade, so it's neither a surprise nor a 
big headache, but I thought I'd mention it.  (Though it can be an issue 
if, say, all your nameservers are Fedora servers, and you aren't even 
aware that "named" hasn't been starting, until you upgrade that last 
server and suddenly your servers go inaccessible -- at first it might 
look like your servers didn't survive the upgrade and you just might 
panic a tiny bit.)