Im running Etch as my favorite server os. Im concidering to upgrade to Lenny as described here at Howtoforge. But before i end up pulling out my hair because i screw something up on our server a few questions. Is it advisable ? Does development and security upgrades stop for Etch ? Is there any known issues with Isp config ? Is the stable version that has come out as secure as Etch at this tage ? Are there any advantages in upgrading to Lenny ? Im running 64 bit Etch is Lenny upgradeble with 64 bit ? Finally what do the rest of you Etch users do ?
I've got 5 production servers all running Etch with ISPconfig 2. For now I will leave it all as it is until ISPconfig 3 is ready for production server use. Only then I will start reinstalling every server (one by one) with Lenny and ISPconfig 3. I do have a test server with Lenny and ISPconfig 2 running. Only to see if some of my custom programs will run on it. For now they all do.
There is no need to upgrade now. No. No. I think so. If you dont need newer software versions like the latest mysql, then not. yes. Personally I will wait a few months with the update.
Yesterday i've upgraded two ISPConfig2 servers with Debian Etch to Debian Lenny. Everything went fine! I used the Falko's howto's: 1) http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-upgrade-a-debian-etch-system-server-and-desktop-to-debian-lenny and: 2) http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-debian-lenny-ispconfig2 I also replaced syslogd with rsyslogd as rsyslogd is mentioned within the 2nd howto. The only thing i don't understand is why the Linux 2.6.xxx-em64t-p4-smp kernels i use, where not upgraded to 2.6.26-1.xxx after rebooting the servers. I guess the em64t-p4 kernels they are not maintained anymore and that it is the AMD branch instead.
In the mean time i upgraded my 2.6.x-EMT64-P4-SMP kernel to the 2.6.26-1-amd64 from Debian. The reason i still had a EM64T kernel was from the period that Debian AMD64 was unofficial. I was still using that kernel for my Intel XEON processors, because it is very stable and i had never problems with it. (Until the moment, i extended/replaced the memory modules). From now on i will use AMD64 which comes with Lenny.
