update OS

[geoschmucker]

I'm planning to use DA for my servers. But how do you update the DA server.

The packages are installed by DA, so do I have to update my system (debian) with apt-get update & upgrade or does DA this for me.

Can someone explain how this works?

thankz,
Peter

 

[chatwizrd]

You would use apt-get still to keep the system up to date. The programs that directadmin controls can be upgraded by the following commands:

cd /usr/local/directadmin/customapache
./build update
./build all d

There are also more scripts in: /usr/local/directadmin/scripts

You can run the other scripts with ./filename.sh

 

[geoschmucker]

so the default applications like apache are excluded from the apt-get command..

 

[chatwizrd]

so the default applications like apache are excluded from the apt-get command..

Yes they are built from source with directadmin. But you can always check what packages are installed with the rpm command.

Example:

rpm -qa | grep -i 'apache'

 

[nobaloney]

Yes they are built from source with directadmin. But you can always check what packages are installed with the rpm command.

Not with Debian.

Don't forget to exclude the systems that DA installs from your apt installation.

Search these forums for more information; I know it's been discussed.

Or find my post about exempting programs from the yum update, and exempt the same programs.

Jeff