Service redundancy : CARP, wackmole/spread, 4.x / 5.x

2005-07-12 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi all, I'm looking into adding some automatic failover for some services. I'd like to hear comments / advice on suitability of either CARP / FreeVRRP / wackamole + spread for these 2 different setups (see below) The setups are completelly independent of each other, so different solutions / app

Re: 4.x -> 5.x

2005-06-20 Thread Ken Ebling
On Jun 20, 2005, at 11:28 AM, Kövesdán_Gábor wrote: Hello, it must be a well-discussed topic, but I don't know where to find a good description about upgrading from 4.x to 5.x. There is a production machine running 4.10 and the owner wants me to upgrade it to 5.4. Could somebody tell me

Re: 4.x -> 5.x

2005-06-20 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Kövesdán, Monday, June 20, 2005, 5:28:58 PM, you wrote these comments: > Hello, > it must be a well-discussed topic, but I don't know where to find a good > description about upgrading from 4.x to 5.x. There is a production > machine running 4.10 and the owner wants me to upgrade it to 5.

Re: 4.x -> 5.x

2005-06-20 Thread Ean Kingston
On June 20, 2005 11:28 am, Kövesdán Gábor wrote: > Hello, > > it must be a well-discussed topic, but I don't know where to find a good > description about upgrading from 4.x to 5.x. There is a production > machine running 4.10 and the owner wants me to upgrade it to 5.4. Could > somebody tell me th

4.x -> 5.x

2005-06-20 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
Hello, it must be a well-discussed topic, but I don't know where to find a good description about upgrading from 4.x to 5.x. There is a production machine running 4.10 and the owner wants me to upgrade it to 5.4. Could somebody tell me the most important points to care? Or do You know a good

Re: differences Freebsd 4.x 5.x

2004-07-23 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 08:25:12PM +0100, Claude Zipfel wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently switching some servers from freebsd 4.x > to freebsd 5.2.1. I had many problems with differences > in handling of usb devices, ufs1-ufs2, /dev/xxx and > /devfs, /proc not mounted by default. > > I there a docu

differences Freebsd 4.x 5.x

2004-07-22 Thread Claude Zipfel
Hi, I am currently switching some servers from freebsd 4.x to freebsd 5.2.1. I had many problems with differences in handling of usb devices, ufs1-ufs2, /dev/xxx and /devfs, /proc not mounted by default. I there a document that describes (a summary of) the differences between freebsd 4.x and 5.x

Re: Dual-boot FreeBSD 4.x/5.x

2004-03-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > > Is it possible to dual boot FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.2.1 on one system, each > using a different / partition, but sharing the same /usr partition for > example? I'd really like to try out some of the features of 5.x, but be > able to easily go back to 4.9 if I find it too unstable. I don't think

Re: Dual-boot FreeBSD 4.x/5.x

2004-03-05 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 03:10:38 -0800 "Loren M. Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to dual boot FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.2.1 on one system, each > using a different / partition, but sharing the same /usr partition for > example? I'd really like to try out some of the features of 5.x, but be >

Dual-boot FreeBSD 4.x/5.x

2004-03-05 Thread Loren M. Lang
Is it possible to dual boot FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.2.1 on one system, each using a different / partition, but sharing the same /usr partition for example? I'd really like to try out some of the features of 5.x, but be able to easily go back to 4.9 if I find it too unstable. -- I sense much NT in you.

Re: 4.x -> 5.x

2003-11-05 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:08:24AM -0800, Mike Hoskins wrote: [...] > my question is, what's the best way to move 4.x packages to 5.x? i'm > not talking binaries of course, but reproducing the set of installed > packages from data in /var/db/pkg. i've read through the man pages for > pkg*, portu

4.x -> 5.x

2003-11-05 Thread Mike Hoskins
quick question -- please CC me, i am not currently subscribed to -questions... (TIA.) i'm throwing together a "migrating from 4.x to 5.x" doc targetted at beginning - intermediate audiences. i say that, because a large part of the doc is an "install" section with a step by step (including scree