Whats the deal to upgrade leopard server to snow leopard server?
HI
Does it need to be a clean install?, is there an upgrade assistant, i dont really want to install from scratch again, its just that because i have a recent xserve i qualify for the upgrade for only £7.95, which is great. Im just wondering if anyone else has done it yet.
Cheers
I upgraded over the top from 10.5.7 to 10.6.1 last night.
Xserve is new Nehalem (2.26GHz 8 Cores, 12GB RAM) Xraid attached.
Stopped all services except DNS
Cloned boot drive to spare via CCC, inserted DVD and restarted.
I updated the cloned spare disk, not my original.
Took about an hour, then restarted, once Window Manger came up, the installation post procedure kicked in and there was some trivial verbose in the bottom left hand side regarding updating services, with the normal big blue progress bar in the middle of the screen etc.
Applied 10.6.1 and others, restarted again.
Once done, I looked at all my services before starting them.
I run:
DNS
OpenDirectory
DHCP
MAIL
WEB + WEBDAV + WebMail (bout 6 site roots from memory)
AFP
SMB
MySQL
PostGreSQL
Retrospect
Other services I use are:
Joomla 1.5
Radmind
NetworkHomeDirectories
I lost my DHCP static assignments which I knew about from other people's posts.
DNS, DHCP, MySQL and OpenDirectoy came across fine.
MAIL
Mail presented me with a "wizard" walkthrough thingy, which all the settings were prefilled (assuming from the upgrade script) and so I essentially were passenger to clicking next next next... then Okay.
Did a quick Home directory login in and checked email.
I could email to myself (locally) fine, but realised after testing that I was not receiving any external mail.
Checking postmaster, I immediately had tonnes of postmaster email errors of "Postfix SMTP server: errors from <some.domain.name>... uh oh..
I grepped the mail.log for "warning" and saw smtp errors relating to zen.spamhaus.org.
I inspected my postconf settings compared to the default settings. (i.e. postconf -n versus postconf -d) to see just how the migration of my settings came across, etc.
I vi'd into my main.cf and searched for zen.
It seemed that my settings were rejecting everything from the outside world.
I removed zen.spamhaus.org and cleaned up cleaned up the mapsrbldomains entry to be just "mapsrbldomains ="
This fixed email for now, so I'll read up some more about what the settings should be and add zen.spanhaus.org back in later.
I also modified my main.cf settings to allow MS Outlook to access via imap.
apparently Outlook only sends the netbios name and not the fqdn of the client to imap servers.
Even configuring XP in the custom DNS section to include a DNS suffix, Outlook just ignored it and still sent the netbios name after it's HELO command.
I learnt the hard way that the only fix I found is a work around whereby one must modify there main.cf again:
Change:
smtpd_helorestrictions = rejectinvalidhostname rejectnon_fqdnhostname rejectinvalid_helohostname rejectnon_fqdn_helo_hostname
to:
smtpd_helorestrictions = rejectinvalid_hostname
WEB.
Well, nothing was happening here. Completely broken in every way as apache was trying to respawn after segfaulting every 10 seconds at loading the scgi_pubsub module.
Disabled that and the seqfaults stopped.
Didn't get far though as all my virtual sites were screwed.
As soon as I would start apache via ServerAdmin, all the logs within SA would vanish... (made me smile)
I ended up trashing all the migrated settings from within SA, as I had exported out a plist for web only.
All this did was re-enable the segfauts, so I deleted all the 0000domain_portip.conf files from /etc/apache/sites and started from scratch.
I knew Joomla needed to be patched to work with PHP 5.3 which I did before starting WEB service.
(used the test.zip file offered at joomla.org and applied it via command line using my good friend Matthias' (http://www.matthiasraab.com/blog/joomla-and-it/36-updating-many-joomla-sites-on- server-level.html) little unzip command. ( I did it manually though as I only have 3 Joomla 1.5.13 sites)
I vaguely remember installing Marc Linyange's PHP (5.2.x) on 10.5.7 Server to have the comple GD packages, so I went into the apache conf file and had to manually add Apple's new php mod back in, to get PHP back up. (joomla sites were downloading the php file, instead of rendering them, a dead giveaway that Apache knows nada about PHP)
After re-configuring all the sites, (while testing one at a time) my WEB was back up, and joomla seemed happy enough for my needs. (haven't gone looking for errors yet, as I'm sure they exist in the admin backend)
I haven't looked too much into webmail, but it works. Previously, I had a heap of extra plugins and vacation filters/scripts installed for my users. but I hear that's now possible via a wiki, so I'll be playing with that after hours.
I see now the default with my mail server is that you must have something in the subject line, (this gave me another mild heart attack when a user told me they couldn't send email)
EVERYTHING seems faster!
I use Network Home Directories for my own home directory (using 2009 Mac Mini with 10.6.1 also) and I've immediately seen improvements. Whether it's just a snappier 10.6 Finder, I'm not sure, but even my users are noticing it from NHD with 10.5.7 Server.
All in all. I'm very satisfied. This is the first time I've ever attempted to install over the top and I regard my result to be a great success. (I've done this sort of thing since 10.2 Server, and have always built up from vanilla installs, due to the nightmare stories I hear on these forums etc)
Started the cloning at 8pm, (only 100GB clone as most of our data is symlinked to our Xraid) and I put my head on my pillow at 3am.
Cheers,
Raoul.
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