From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 26 11:32:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE7E716A417 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:32:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from info@siterollout.com) Received: from server4.e-webhost.info (server4.e-webhost.info [85.234.142.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9EAD43D49 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:32:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from info@siterollout.com) Received: from 82-44-177-32.cable.ubr05.haye.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.44.177.32] helo=pc1) by server4.e-webhost.info with esmtpa (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Gd4PF-0007mM-M0 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:32:22 +0000 From: "SiteRollout.com" To: Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:32:43 +0100 Message-ID: <002c01c6f8f2$7656c550$0200a8c0@pc1> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 Importance: Normal Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Three FreeBSD 6 questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:32:03 -0000 I'm new to this list, so here's a hello, how are you to everyone on the list! =20 I'm coming to FreeBSD from a Linux background, so whilst some things are pretty similar, some things are pretty different. =20 Two questions to kickstart my participation on this list: =20 1.) How exactly do I know whether I am running the STABLE or CURRENT release, as when I run uname I can only see the following relevant info: =20 FreeBSD server4.domain.info 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Sep = 23 13:52:48 UTC 2006 root@server4. domain.info:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/SERVER4 i386 =20 And which file do I change to use a different release, and how must I = update the system to pull in this latest release? 2.) I'm a bit confused as to updating the system. As I understand, there = are 3 areas which require updates: =20 i. Ports ii. Security updates iii. Kernel updates =20 I know how to perform the first two, but for kernel updates I can't seen = to find a consistent unified method with talk of the "traditional" way and = the "latest" way. What is the best way to keep my FreeBSD 6.x system = up2date? =20 3.) One of my new FreeBSD 6.0 servers went down recently. This was odd = as the actual server was hardly busy, but filesystem errors came up when booting up the server. After running fsck, server would be up for about = an hour and then go down again. This kept happening and so I initially = thought it was due to overheating. However cooling was all good, so after = further investigation and googling I diagnosed the problem as being the = background fsck which for some reason was failing, causing the server to shutdown = and upon reboot requiring a manual fsck. =20 I've fixed this by disabling the background fsck and forcing the bootup = fsck in /etc/rc.conf. At least then if the server goes down again it will fix itself with a full fsck when booting up. My question is whether this is okay, and has anyone experienced this same problem with their system? = And why has the background fsck been failing? Where can i find further info? =20 Any help with these questions would be greatly appreciated. =20 Regards, Suhail. =20 www.siterollout.com =20