On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:00:01PM -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 11:30:06PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > I'm considering moving my 486 from Debian to OpenBSD. I haven't the > > money to spend on a new e.g. UNIX System Administration. 4.4 BSD System > > Manager's Manual is out of print. I haven't been able to google > > anything freely available on the internet. My local library has had > > their only UNIX book stolen (not by me). > > > I figure that if I get an old BSD book and combine it with the > > OpenBSD FAQ plus man pages, I'll be off to a good start. > > As for your "simple example" above, I've seen more than once someone > talk about bringing a box down for extended periods to update. I just > don't get that. It's easy enough to update sources or apply the patch > and rebuild while the system is up. Sure, it can add a lot of load, but > OpenBSD is fairly stable under load in terms of still serving web pages, > or doing mail, etc. Then the only total downtime is during reboot if > you've updated the kernel, or restart time on daemons if you've only > updated userland.
Sounds similar to debian which also has to reboot a new kernel. Do you run the rebuild niced? However, is it correct that when a new release comes out every six months, you have to reboot into that? How long does an upgrade from one release to the next take? Thanks for your suggestions re used books. I'll try some of Kingston's used book stores and see what I can get at the Queen's book store. Doug.
