[LON-CAPA-admin] upgrade inquires

[Neubauer, Paul R.]

Thanks, Guy, and Mark. I must seem as thick as a short plank, but I always find myself wondering what is going to happen.

> The UPDATE script, looks for exisitng settings during the update
> process and preserves them.

OK. That's good.
 
> install.pl does:
> - makes the www user if it doesn't exist
> - installs the pwauth command if it isn't there
> - sets up mysql and creates needed database and a few tables

Don't I have mysql already? Or at least the databases that it wants? Does it only create the database and tables if they don't already exist or does it make new, empty ones?

> So at the step in the install instructions after you have run
> install.pl (and you have restored the /etc files you saved) You should
> be able to do:
> 
> /etc/init.d/httpd start
> /etc/init.d/loncontrol start
> 
> And everything should start up and be running.

Great. I'll do that. I really want to test at every stage I can.
 
> The step when you run UPDATE is when we update all of the lon-capa
> files.
> 
> 
> Does that clear things up? 

That helps a lot. Thanks.

Paul
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Paul Neubauer
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Ball State University
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