Dumb upgrade question

Jeff McKeon jsm at inpro.net
Wed Aug 20 14:57:35 CEST 2003


Matthew,

Thanks for the info!!!

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 10:28, matthewwilson at dsl.pipex.com wrote:
> Jeff,
> Yes I think that should work... after installing the RPM just copy *.cfg from
> the old dir to /etc/nagios/.   Everything else will be installed by the rpm to
> the new dirs. 
> In your httpd.conf file you will to change your directory statements to
> something like this:
> 
> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"
> ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin/ "/usr/lib/nagios/cgi/"
> <Directory "/usr/lib/nagios/cgi">
> 	AllowOverride AuthConfig
> 	Options ExecCGI
> 	Order allow,deny
> 	Allow from all
> </Directory>
> 
> Alias /nagios "/usr/share/nagios"
> <Directory "/usr/share/nagios">
> 	AllowOverride AuthConfig
> 	
> 	Order allow,deny
> 	Allow from all
> </Directory>
> 
> note I haven't actually done the upgrade... I have just extrapolating from my
> experiences installing 1.1 using the rpm
> 
> Matthew.
> 
> Quoting Jeff McKeon <jsm at inpro.net>:
> 
> > Mathew,
> > 
> > so everything currently in /usr/local/nagios/etc will need to be moved
> > to /etc/nagios?
> > 
> > what about the rest of the directories under /usr/local/nagios like
> > libexec and images?
> > 
> > What config changes are needed in apache?  It's been months since I set
> > this up.. 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Jeff
> > 
> > On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 09:23, matthewwilson at dsl.pipex.com wrote:
> > > Hi Jeff,
> > > The RPM puts things in different directories to where you currently have
> > nagios
> > > installed (by default) So you will probably be OK.  After the RPM install
> > you
> > > will need to copy your config files to /etc/nagios/ and update your apache
> > config.
> > > 
> > > Matthew Wilson
> > > DCSat.net
> > > 
> > > Quoting Jeff McKeon <jsm at inpro.net>:
> > > 
> > > > I currently have ver 1.0 (nov 24, 2002) running.  I originally installed
> > > > this the old fashion way by compiling the binaries myself.  I just
> > > > downloaded the ver 1.1 RPM.  Can I do an RPM upgrade over a binary
> > > > install or will this "screw the pooch?"
> > > > 
> > > > thanks,
> > > > -- 
> > > > Jeff McKeon <jsm at inpro.net>
> > -- 
> > Jeff McKeon <jsm at inpro.net>
> > 
> > 
-- 
Jeff McKeon <jsm at inpro.net>



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