On 8 Sep 2008 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] entreated about
freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 232, Issue 3:
FreeBSD ***servername*** 6.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #1:
Mon Dec 3 09:46:53 EST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/
src/sys/INET_ON amd64
oooh, that is a bit old I think.
I
maybe 6.3 had the drivers for the motherboard? I had that - I
purchased a nice shiny newmotherbaord in 2007 but could not use it
before 7.0R came out as the chips were not supported by 6.x. I chose
not to use a CURRENT or RC version of 7, but to just wait.
Possibly... the motherboard is an
Anyway, I guess what I should do is patch this to the latest 6.3
version?
My strategy was to do a source-base upgrade to 6.3-RELEASE, and then
use freebsd-update to apply critical patches. Freebsd-update only
works on -RELEASE versions with generic kernels, but I find it much
faster and easier
On 8 Sep 2008 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] entreated about
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Hi John
So, my first question is, do I really need to do this?
yes
If so, what is the minimum amount of upgrading I can do to be safe?
And how?
I track RELENG_7_0 in my source tree, but only
uname -a
FreeBSD ***servername*** 6.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #1:
Mon Dec 3 09:46:53 EST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/
src/sys/INET_ON amd64
oooh, that is a bit old I think.
I chose this server as an example, because it's the oldest one. I
didn't install the OS on
On 9/8/08, John Almberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
uname -a
FreeBSD ***servername*** 6.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #1:
Mon Dec 3 09:46:53 EST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/
src/sys/INET_ON amd64
oooh, that is a bit old I think.
I chose this server as an example, because
I'm a newbie admin, responsible for a half-dozen of freebsd servers,
most of them production servers.
We switched from Linux to Freebsd at the beginning of this year, so
all of these servers were newly installed in Dec or Jan. I know I
*should* be upgrading them, but so far I haven't had
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 18:08:55 -0400, John Almberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, my first question is, do I really need to do this?
In short: Depends. For servers that are accessible to the
public (i. e. the Internet), security updates should be
installed (RELEASE-p). Furthermore, security updates
John Almberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, my first question is, do I really need to do this?
Not unless you can identify a good reason (i.e. feature requirements,
security, end-of-life). 6.3 end-of-life is estimated around January
31, 2010, so you still have some time. :-)
If so, what is
