On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 01:14:12PM -0400, Jonathan Arnold wrote: > I'm currently running 4.5, and want to upgrade my machine and was > wondering what you might have for recommendations.
[...] > 3] A reformat and complete upgrade to 5.0 - I already have > the web site & mailing list dbs backed up. > > As scary as it sounds, I'm leaning towards #3. That does sound scary. By all means go right ahead if it doesn't matter that the server stays up. In the past 7 years that I have been using FreeBSD the hardest thing to beat into peoples heads has been "don't use -current on critical machines." Am concerned that your system is still 4.5, which suggests you don't have to spend much time keeping it running (good) but don't spend much time "keeping up" (bad). There have been serious issues with ssh, apache, and probably other things since 4.5. You may be vulnerable. "Make buildworld", "make installworld", mergemaster, and "make kernel" can be performed on a running system. Then with any luck you are only a reboot away from being updated. That's what I do. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
