[WBEL-users] Re: Finding Up2Date info on the site

[John Morris]

On Thu, 20 May 2004, John Hinton wrote:

> I would like to suggest a VERY prominent postioning on the Home page, a 
> link to Up2date Info. I found myself hitting all but one wrong button 

Probably another good idea, even though it is in the FAQ.  We all know 
that most folks don't read those unless they have a problem.

> So, maybe the updates should not be announced until you can verify they 
> have made it to the mirrors and then the bandwidth issues there can be 
> reduced... a self feeding problem as Whitebox becomes more known and 
> accepted.

Already do that.  Which is why no announcements have went out yet.  Making 
sure they propagate first.

> My apologies for using the library for my updates, but I've had my hands 
> full with this major change to my OS (RH 7.2 to WBEL) and have little 
> time for anything else beyond getting all my accounts moved and doing 
> all the custom settings for each of those accounts. Yes, I'm guilty... 
> but will make the change now.

I managed to upgrade from 7.3 to WBEL.  Yes a few things were wrong, but 
within a day I'd found all of them and fixed everything up.  We have one 
primary server that has darned near every service you can think of running 
on it so setting everything back up from scratch wasn't a viable option.  
Of course because of my continuing to upgrade we are still using the 
original UNIX passwords in /etc/shadow instead of md5.  But who wants to 
get thousands of end users to reset their password?

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