Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 02:55:49 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: "W. D." <WD@US-Webmasters.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Build a duplicate system - but upgrade OS version? Message-ID: <20031112015549.GB3705@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20031111151233.049322c0@209.152.117.178> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20031111151233.049322c0@209.152.117.178>
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On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:34:23PM -0600, W. D. wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have a FreeBSD 4.4 webserver that's been working fine for nearly 2 years. > This computer was purchased from a systems integrator, so I am not > intimately familiar with how it was configured. > > I would like to build another machine that would be nearly identical, > having all the same software and functionality, but use the latest > production OS. Is there a cheat sheet somewhere that would give the > salient information to do this? What are the *SEQUENTIAL* steps > to accomplish this? Do you wan't to have a better understanding of FreeBSD or do you just want a quick way to doing this? > I've looked at the handbook & did a Google search already: > http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/handbook.html > > ("duplicate server" OR "clone server" OR "copy server configuration") site:FreeBSD.org > http://tinyurl.com/ulft > > Are there some config files that I could duplicate? Yes. Most port place there config files in /usr/local/etc/ or /usr/local/X11R6/etc/ but there are exeptions to this rule. > How about my IPFW firewall? How can that be transferred? The system config files are located in /etc. The firewall is part of this. One special config file is /etc/rc.conf which determen what gets loaded of the OS during boot. Scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d loads the ports during boot. > Are there other programs like IPFW, that aren't listed in > pkg_info? Everthing thats part of the main system isn't listed by pkg_info. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/
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