Remotely upgrading via yum

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sat Feb 14 16:21:33 UTC 2009


On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 08:14 -0800, Paul Nowosielski wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have two remote boxes that are in need of upgrading.
> One is running FC6 and the other FC8.
> 
> The FC6 box is running sshd, httpd, pptpd and acts as a firewall
> box.
> 
> The FC8 box is just running mysqld.
> 
> I do not have physical access to these boxes.
> If I am locked out it will be a major problem.
> 
> Does anyone have some advice they can lend me please?
> I was wanting to upgrade with the yum upgrade command but I 
> am wary. I have no experience with it and do not know what to expect.
> 
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most everything you need to know is here...

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq

Craig




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