From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 2 21:51:19 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F7B937B401 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 21:51:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-relay.omnis.com (smtp-relay.omnis.com [216.239.128.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B66343F93 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 21:51:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.homeunix.net (66-91-236-204.san.rr.com [66.91.236.204]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0F0943C0C; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 21:51:17 -0800 (PST) From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr To: Michael DeMan , Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 21:51:17 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304022151.17249.wes@softweyr.com> Subject: Re: Patch updates X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 05:51:19 -0000 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 wes@softweyr.com