On Wednesday 02 April 2003 11:53, Michael DeMan wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We have a couple of boxes overlooked for patches since mid-summer.
>
> We cvsup all our boxes.
>
> Is it possible to do a make buildworld / make installworld and restart
> appropriate services to pick up latest security patches?
>
> What could go wrong with this? Lots of things?
>
> Our cvsup is release specific, RELENG_4_6, RELENG_4_7, etc, so in
> theory things should run as-always, except sendmail and a few other
> goodies will have updated binaries?
Watch the cvsup output to see what changed. Watch for system header file
changes, those can be pretty far-reaching. If the kernel doesn't change,
you're pretty safe with buildworld, installworld, and selectively
restarting any long-lived daemons that changed.
--
Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?
Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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