[wellylug] Quote for setting up file server wanted

[Centurion Computer Technology Ltd]

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 03:16, Sam Cannell wrote:
> While that may work for many packages, there are those that do require
> manual steps to be taken during the upgrade.
> 
> PostgreSQL is one - often the database format changes between releases,
> and the new version _will not_ run unless you either convert all your
> old databases or drop them all and run initdb again.  The Debian
> postgres package installer will not do this for you automatically.
> 
> And when a new version of Samba is installed, how does the user know
> whether they want to replace the smb.conf on their hard disk with the
> package maintainer's version?  Unless they have significant Linux
> experience, they're not going to know the difference between a situation
> when they generally do want to replace configuration files (like
> /etc/pam.d/login), and when they will almost definitely want to keep
> their version, for example squid.conf.  Sure, most upgrades don't
> require any manual intervention at all, but there are some that do.
> 
> Don't get me wrong - I think it'd be great if many more people had
> experience using Linux.  But pushing someone in the deep end by
> installing a production Linux server that they have no possible way of
> maintaining adequately is *not* the right way to do it.

But that is exactly what I have found in many businesses runnning MS
software anyway.  Most small businesses don't have the resources to pay
for a full time IT administrator. They end upwith problems because some
one within the organistion stuffs things up by trying to maintain the
system themselves when they don't have a clue.

A Linux server is no harder to maintain then a windows server, and is
probably more straight forward once you know how.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz
> [mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz] On Behalf Of Michael Bordignon
> Sent: Tuesday, 10 February 2004 1:54 p.m.
> To: 'wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz'
> Subject: RE: [wellylug] Quote for setting up file server wanted
> 
> apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
> 
> 
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