From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 11 00:04:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA21608 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:04:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA21595 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:03:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA28776; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:03:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:03:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Gavin Cameron cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrade question (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Gavin Cameron wrote: > I've got three servers servicing around 800 users which I need to upgrade > to -stable over the easter break. ok. > Email, WWW server, squid proxy, router running ip-filter, majordomo > Machine is running 2.1.6-RELEASE > > Can I upgrade the machine by doing a make world of stable and compiling a > new kernel? I always felt that the `make world' upgrade path was the hard way. I always use the boot floppy -> select `upgrade' method but that's me. > For the 2 2.2.1-RELEASE boxes I should just be able to make world and > compile a new kernel, shouldn't I? No known problems, but watch that the new login class limits in /etc/login.conf don't start biting larger jobs. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message