Re: [xymon] Upgrade from 4.2.0 to 4.3.0-0 beta 2

[Geoff Hallford <geoff.hallford (at) gmail.com>]

Does anyone else have any suggestions on something that was missed? Thanks!

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Geoff Hallford <geoff.hallford (at) gmail.com>wrote:

> Yeah I did. I deleted:
>
> ~/data/*
> ~/server/tmp/*
> ~/server/www/bb.html
> ~/server/www/bb2.html
> ~/server/www/(all pages created from my bb-hosts configuration)
>
> It then complained that it couldn't find the checkpoint file, so it knows
> there was one.......Not sure what file i am missing to tell it that it is a
> fresh install.
>
> Thanks Vernon.
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon (at) gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Did you delete the contents of ~server/tmp ?
>> There a few interesting files in there.
>> alert.* and hobbitd.chk might be your culprits.
>>
>> Cheers
>>      Vernon
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:53 AM, Geoff Hallford <geoff.hallford (at) gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I am doing an upgrade from 4.2.0 to 4.3.0-0 beta 2 on a new server. I
>>> have read in the forums, that you can do a brand new server installation
>>> (which I have done) and then you just need to stop Xymon on both servers and
>>> copy over the "data" directory and modify permissions accordingly to
>>> migrate.
>>>
>>> Is there a way that I can test moving over the data and hosts, then clean
>>> up all of the data before trying again? I have tried removing the data from
>>> /home/xymon/data and from /home/xymon/server/tmp but each time it has
>>> trouble saying it can't access the ACK folder in data or the checkpoint
>>> file..... how does it know that it had the info previously, if i have
>>> deleted all the data???
>>>
>>> Any suggestions would help.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Geoff.
>>>
>>
>>
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