From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 16 12:12:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2240837B401 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:12:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail16.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6A2143E97 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:12:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdarnold@buddydog.org) Received: (qmail 15370 invoked from network); 16 Oct 2002 19:12:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO max) ([66.92.76.225]) (envelope-sender ) by mail16.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 16 Oct 2002 19:12:52 -0000 Message-ID: <200210161512500640.0BBA12CA@mail.speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <20021016181528.GB17604@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <200210161314120727.0B4D72FE@mail.speakeasy.net> <20021016181528.GB17604@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (4) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:12:50 -0400 Reply-To: jdarnold@buddydog.org From: "Jonathan Arnold" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrade recommendations Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >FreeBSD the hardest thing to beat into peoples heads has been "don't use >-current on critical machines." Thanks for insisting on that too! I don't have, by any means, a "critical" machine - it's just a play web site and mailing list - but I do like to have them up, so perhaps I'll stay away for now. >time "keeping up" (bad). There have been serious issues with ssh, >apache, and probably other things since 4.5. You may be vulnerable. All valid concerns. But I don't use ssh (have it turned off) and I have kept Apache patched. I do run some updates, just haven't jumped whole hog into the water. >"Make buildworld", "make installworld", mergemaster, and "make kernel" >can be performed on a running system. Then with any luck you are only a >reboot away from being updated. That's what I do. You know, I will probably do that, to the recent 4.7, now that I think about it a little more. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) The Incredible Brightness of Seeing, a Home Theater weblog http://jdarnold.tzo.com/HomeTheater To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message