From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 9 08:59:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA26117 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 08:59:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Amnesiac.123.org (mcl@Amnesiac.mtl.pl [195.116.4.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA25930 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 08:58:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mcl@Amnesiac.123.org) Received: from localhost (mcl@localhost) by Amnesiac.123.org (8.9.0/8.9.0.Beta5) with SMTP id RAA02192; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 17:58:47 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 17:58:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Michal Listos To: Daniel Stringfield cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading a machine In-Reply-To: <357C4462.34F53C0D@csi.com> 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Daniel Stringfield wrote: > How do I tell what version software I am running, If you installed program from ports or packages, you can check version using pkg_info utility, otherwise you should read manpages and documentation shipped with that program there is no standard for version checking. [506](mcl@arka ~)$ dig @localhost version.bind chaos txt | grep -v ^\; VERSION.BIND. 0 TXT "8.1.2" > and what FreeBSD version I'm running? [507](mcl@arka ~)$ uname -srm FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386 [508](mcl@arka ~)$ uname -srm FreeBSD arka.mtl.pl 2.2.6-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE #0: Mon Jun 8 08:57:14 CEST 1998 root@arka.mtl.pl:/usr/src/sys/compile/mcl i386 man uname :) > Also, what do I need to do to upgrade to BIND > 8.1.2 from whatever version I'm on now? If you're using bind 4.x, you may need to convert named.boot to named.conf using named-bootconf.pl script, which is shipped with bind8. Michal * Anybody knows major/minor for /dev/beer? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNX1btr1rJn1VyAj1AQFVvAP/eeG528RSc9T3jP8NhQpCoUlw7OxZJ9IQ NxBd+CereNPIybkf/ZWqxhHo43ZiL77+EZomj/rlryPfvhxhWRhK4gw7Cmps1vkc a6n0Y5LDTnoAJP/AkPZo2FzJMWP3Rs8P3rczJPSEVi/yYCV7iI6dEVx/flwo0oNZ KV2+oDKlh1w= =8L/f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message