On Mar 20, 2007, at 10:14 AM — 3/20/07, Christopher Wilson wrote: > We are currently planning/prepping for a *major* jump/move from > 1.8d on Solaris to 15 on SuSE in a VM. So far, the only issues > encountered have been the (already documented at length in various > VMWare forums) system clock issues, which were fairly easily > resolved. We will also be switching MTAs from Sendmail to Postfix - > in part because the /etc/aliases entries have reached an almost > unmanageable number (~45k lines!), and under Postfix, delivery to > Listserv can just be the default. On the HTTPD side, we just moved > from an ancient Netscape server to Apache on the current machine > with no issues, and the new instance will also be running Apache. > > Since this is a major jump, we intend to use this as an opportunity > to force all of the list owners to migrate their lists to the new > server via a series of CGI pages, and begin enforcing various > policies regarding list configuration and ownership at the system > level. > > We're moving as much stuff as possible into VMs both to reduce > floor space consumption, and for business continuity reasons. So > far, no major problems- even with VMs accessing SAN resources, and > doing network backups and restores. Wow! That's quite an ambitious project to do all at once. You are not going to move the lists for the list owners?