From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 23 02:32:17 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A08CFF7 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 02:32:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from okamoto@mix-net.co.jp) Received: from mix-ict.net (mix-ict.net [202.239.126.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C474F8FC08 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 02:32:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mix-ict.net (Postfix, from userid 5001) id E6BD85D4AD9; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:32:09 +0900 (JST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on mix-ict.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=13.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FH_DATE_PAST_20XX,RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=no version=3.2.5 Received: from [192.168.5.152] (220x151x200x91.ap220.ftth.ucom.ne.jp [220.151.200.91]) by mix-ict.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEF5D5D4A61; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:32:04 +0900 (JST) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:32:15 +0900 From: Rei Okamoto To: Adam Vande More , Olivier Nicole , Erich Dollansky Subject: Re: Question regarding a server with an unsupported old version In-Reply-To: References: <20121022113136.7BB4.59217E37@mix-net.co.jp> Message-Id: <20121023113214.0CE2.59217E37@mix-net.co.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.62 [ja] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 02:32:17 -0000 Hi Adam, Olivier, Erich, and the rest, Thank you for your replies. It sounds like the best thing to do is to migrate the contents to a server with new versions of all softwares. I'll make further discussions with my boss about this matter. Thank you again, Rei Okamoto > Hello to all, > > My name is Rei Okamoto posting from Japan. > > I'm very new to FreeBSD and please pardon and caution me > if anything I post is in any way inappropriate. > > Here's a problem I'm facing right now. > > I started working for a company this month as a > sole engineerer, given all my tasks with virtually > no manuals other than IP addresses, IDs and PWs. > (Dangerous, but not such a rare case in this country) > > One of the clients is running the web site using > FreeBSD 4.7. > > Although it is surely the best to renew the server to > newest machine and OS, the client is reluctant to do so > because of money. > > So a long story short, because I need to do some testing, > I've installed FreeBSD 4.11 to the VirtualBox as a > test server in my local PC and got the network connected. > > I want to build the test server as close to the > actual server as possible, such as considering the > OS's version 4.11 to be close enough to 4.7, but > as I try to install PHP4 with a following command, > > pkg_add -r php4-4.3.6.tgz > > I get an error message below. > > Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.11-release/Latest/php4-4.3.6.tgz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) > > So you probably can figure out the rest of the story, > it is all too old to make a near duplication of the server. > > Is there any suggestion on what I can do > other than convincing the client to renew the server? > (which I am doing but already been politely refused) > > Pardon me for the long message, > and thank you in advance for all replies. > > > Thank you, > Rei Okamoto