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

[Vernon Everett]

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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