From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 16 13:20:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net (smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net [206.210.69.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3354937B405 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:20:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 16754 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2002 21:20:35 -0000 Received: from dap-209-166-135-77.nfas.greensburg-tnt-1.sns234.pa.stargate.net (HELO wastegate.net) (209.166.135.77) by smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net with SMTP; 16 Jan 2002 21:20:35 -0000 Received: from mother.wastegate.net (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.2]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F37448449; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:20:53 -0500 (EST) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "Kevin Oberman" Cc: "Brian T. Schellenberger" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "Rodrigo A B Freire" Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:22:45 -0500 Reply-To: "Doug Reynolds" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2380) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: <20020116175313.891BE5D13@ptavv.es.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Newbie: 4.4-stable, how to? - And the CVSupIT bug. Message-Id: <20020116212053.2F37448449@wastegate.net> 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 On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 09:53:13 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> >Once you have installed world, if the new kernel won't work you system >> >might not run properly with the old kernel and backing out the world >> >install is a major pain. >> > >> >The instructions in UPDATING were written to provide a safe, fairly >> >easy way to update a system. Think carefully of what you are doing >> >before diverging from them. >> >> well, in that case, if it doesn't work, it'll test your backups to see >> if they'll work :) > >It will also check out your adeptness in explaining to your boss why a >server was down for 3 hours while you restored the system (including >panicked investigation of whether there is a way to avoid the need to >restore, the time to load the backup tapes into the DLT's hopper, >and the time to actually restore 3 or 4 levels of dump). > >Of course, if it's just a test system, you might not care. And I'm >sure you always deploy updates on a test system before trying them on >any production system. :-) my production system is my test system- it just runs on a home network to receive mail etc. and i have a backup mail server, so it is just a good working experiment in progress :) --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 6E7B 9993 B503 6D45 E33A 2019 26E5 C1DB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message