What should I look out for when upgrading?

[Boaz Bezborodko]

I plan on upgrading when everyone is off the system.  I'll do the 
upgrade once everyone is done for the day and then run an indexing 
script I tested out today on a test subdirectory.

John Esak wrote:

>Indexes, as Nancy says, very important.
>Depends on which install you do ... as to how it upgrades. Do you want any
>new edits, printer defs, etc. (Don't know that there are any.)  The only
>thing I would do is copy my global edits file somewhere safe before the
>upgrade.The rest is totally seamless.
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>I *know* you don't need to hear this. I mean you are quite obviously a
>sophisticated system administartor... but you can get bit by not making sure
>that there aren't any fp executables running when you do the install. It is
>certainly worth doing thorough ps's for dreport, dclerk, rreport, rclerk,
>dxmaint, ddefine, etc.... just to make sure no one is running anything down
>inthe shipping department, etc. If an executable is in memory at the time of
>your install, I do not believe you will end up with the 5.6 version of that
>program. I'm not even sure if the install puts up an error in this
>circumstance, or if it does, that it would be visible in the rush of things
>that appear on the screen. Any case, something to watch outfor...
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>John
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>>Behalf Of Boaz Bezborodko
>>Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 9:45 AM
>>To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
>>Subject: What should I look out for when upgrading?
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>>I'm getting ready to upgrade our FP from 4.8 to 5.6.  (FPtech got their
>>License manager setup to serve Windows machines from a Linux server
>>running Samba.  Very simple and straightforward thanks to Ray Hoover.)
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>>What should I be looking out for when doing the upgrade?
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>>(I already noticed that I had to delete a lockfile created by 4.8 even
>>though there were no other users on the test system.)
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>>Boaz
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