[BlueOnyx:10036] Re: Conf files replaced by update

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

Hi Frank,

Frank Soyer wrote:
>> Generally you shouldn't modify your sendmail.cf. Any modification should go
>> into sendmail.mc, which our updates will never overwrite. So whenever
>> sendmail.cf is rebuilt from the sendmail.mc during an update, your changes
>> will be retained.
> Are you sure ? When I modify the .cf, I need to compile the .mc file as 
> sendmail only know this one.
> So the .mc file contains my modifications at this time. You see ?

I'm not sure that I understand what you wrote exactly.

The proper order of things would be to edit sendmail.mc, and then run 
"make" to compile and create the sendmail.cf.  You should not be editing 
directly into the sendmail.cf if you want permanent changes.

I do agree that sendmail.mc should not be overwritten.   However I do 
confirm this to NOT be the case in some events.  I have seen our 
customizations to sendmail.mc mysteriously vanish without a trace.  That 
is unfortunate.


>>> Second, on some BO servers, my customers have requested the most recent
>>> version of PHP.
>> 5107R and 5108R already come with PHP-5.3.3 pre-installed, while the older
>> 5106R of course still uses PHP-5.1.6.
> Yes, but the 5107 and 5108 are based on Scientific Linux and it's 
> problematic for some clients, convincing them to use CentOS instead of 
> RH was already complicated, so Scientific Linux.... I know that you had 
> already have this remarks and that you are working on the CentOS6 
> release, right ?

Scientific Linux is a problem for your clients?  Really?   It shouldn't 
be.   It's the exact same binaries, and honestly I've found the SL 
updates to be superior to CentOS in terms of time it takes to be 
delivered.  Besides... SL being released by Fermilab, Cern and a 
collection of other research labs and schools, in my mind, gives it a 
better support base than the loose group of guys on the CentOS team. 
Nothing against them, but they've really sort of fallen behind by losing 
focus with in-fighting and power struggles.  SL just cooks along...

> If it's so, I suppose there is no possibility to just install the 
> "base-*" files from 5607 or 5608 on this boxes, by modifying the yum 
> repos, and keeping the PHP5.3 installed ?

I would not recommend this.  You're adding yet another layer of 
complexity and magnet for trouble.

>> Additionally for 5106R, 5107R and 5108R there are supported third party PHP
>> updates available from Solarspeed.net and Compass Networks. None of these
>> third party PHP updates requires any changes to AdmServ. Likewise, these third
>> party PHP updates don't break during YUM updates and are available with (and
>> without) subscription to future PHP updates.

I *HIGHLY* recommend to our customers and to the public in general... 
don't go trying to "improve" or "fix" BlueOnyx on your own.  Pay just a 
little bit of money (there is nothing I've seen for sale that rises to 
the level of "too expensive") and get it done right.   After all, if 
it's your BUSINESS that's involved here, why would you risk headaches 
and problems to save just a few bucks?   That's small thinking.   Don't 
we all have better things to be concerned with than spending hours to 
reinvent the wheel when we could spend a few bucks and just plug it in?

> About that, can you tell me if the prices given on Solarspeed for 
> example are a definitive prices, or a yearly (monthly ?) rental ?

Solarspeed's pricing is a one-time purchase.  Buy it once per server. 
It's not a subscription model such as with Plesk or cPanel.

-- 
Chris Gebhardt
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