How to avoid "Do you want to upgrade the design of the Domino Directory" especially when you can’t access console

Vladislavs Tatarincevs  8 July 2009 14:20:02

Hi,
This weekend I was upgrading one customer to Domino 8.5.
Their server room was located in different part of the city, and we did all the work remotely,
I upgraded design of names.nsf and admin4 with all necessary commands.
http://www.vlaad.lv/lotus.nsf/dx/12242008074859PMSAMNW6.htm
We did all the work thought Remote Desktop Connection.
When I started the server, nserver appeared in process list, but server was not reponding. I was unable to connect thought Lotus Notes client.

I navigated to IBM_Technical_support and opened consol.log, DAMN!!! Domino was waiting for my input, to TO BE OR NOT TO BE, Upgrade or Not to upgrade.
You can use /console mode , or /Admin mode on new OSes, but for Linux or other systems, you need somekind of server console access.

So what I did, nserver -c "YES" solved my problem. :))))
if you do upgrade upgrade on LINUX, good practice, at least what I do , to run server from user, and then when server is up, run it as a service,
so I think this small TIP can be usefull for some one:)

There is also notes.ini parameter, which avoids from server prompt to upgrade.

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