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How to: Porting applications from development machine to hardened server.

Hi,

I am in the process of porting one of our management/metrics systems from Linux to Solaris (SPARC v9). I have moved everything over to a Solaris development system, which is identical to the hardened server on which this system will ultimately reside, but it also has gcc, make, and all the other required tools for compiling/building source. My question is: how do I go about moving the applications over to the server? I don't imagine it could be as clear cut as copying over the directory structure and files. In addition to others, I will be moving Perl, PHP, Apache, and RRDtool. Is there a standard approach to accomplishing this, or does it vary from product to product?

I appreciate any and all help.

Thanks,
Jeff

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jpetter

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bpeterse,

Perl is on the Solaris 9 box, but since I don't have Sun's C compiler that was used to build it, I can't add any modules, so I brought down the latest from http://www.perl.com, compiled it on the development box, and then added the modules I need. This version I have to push over to the new box. And as you've suggested, I have brought down the distros and compiled then on the Solaris 9 box...now I have to move them over to the hardened server.

I think you gave me what I was looking for in your suggestion to tar up the directory and copy it over to the new box. Let me give that a try, and I'll get back.

Thanks,
Jeff

jpetter

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That did the trick.

Thanks,
Jeff