meo@gatech.edu (Miles O'Neal) (01/18/89)
daedalus!kovar%husc4@talcott.harvard.edu (-David C. Kovar) writes: >According to the upgrade documentation, I'm >going to have to reenter the account information for 200 accounts via SNAP >and they're going to have to reenter their passwords.... We threw out the idea of using SNAP a while back. It's a good idea, but like most everyone else's attempt that I've seen, the execution is flawed. >...Will I break anything if I just restore /etc/passwd, /etc/auto.home, >and the like from tape and remake the YP server?... I don't know - I *do* know that you have to at least save /etc/yppasswd and /etc/ypgroup - this is where SNAP puts its entries. >...There appears to >be an unreasonable amount of "print out the XXX file and reenter it by >hand when you reconfigure the system after the upgrade." Is there a way to >do this upgrade more efficiently, and more quickly? We backed everything up to tape (forget this floppy trash) and did selective backups. Still a pain, but quicker than their idea. Be real careful to restore ONLY your stuff, or disaster may strike. I have a name & address at Sun to write with comments about this upgrade process - send email to me at gatech!stiatl!meo if you want it. -Miles
jim@eda.com (Jim Budler) (01/19/89)
daedalus!kovar%husc4@talcott.harvard.edu (-David C. Kovar) writes: > ...I'm > going to have to reenter the account information for 200 accounts via SNAP > and they're going to have to reenter their passwords.... Will I > break anything if I just restore /etc/passwd, /etc/auto.home, and the like > from tape and remake the YP server? I can't think why anything would break. My yellow pages master is on a sun3, sunOS 3.5. So it didn't change at all when we upgraded our four sun386i's. Everything still worked fine. > ...There appears to > be an unreasonable amount of "print out the XXX file and reenter it by Well, it newfs's /, /usr, and /files. That's definately "trashed". > hand when you reconfigure the system after the upgrade." Is there a way to > do this upgrade more efficiently, and more quickly? I unloadc'd all the clusters, and modified the installation script to NOT newfs /files. So the user directories weren't trashed. jim Jim Budler address = uucp: ...!{decwrl,uunet}!eda!jim domain: jim@eda.com