Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:49:33 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: Paul Stewart <pstewart@kawartha.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 Upgrade Question Message-ID: <362C94ED.2A49B872@tdx.co.uk> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981020084328.28505A-100000@shell.kawartha.com>
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Paul Stewart wrote: > On a side note, we have several machines running on 122597-SNAP releases. > They are running just fine except I can't compile UCD-SNMP on them which > is now needed. So, I was thinking of updating them to 3.0-RELEASE. Am I > playing with fire again? I can't take these machines offline for a long > period of time. Can I CVSUP them to the newest kernel trees and remake > the kernel? Is this a safe practice? If you mean run a 3.0 kernel with a 2.2.7 utils/bin tree? - No, that's asking for trouble... It would brake lots of things like ps etc. just for starters... (If that is what you meant?) > As you can tell, I'm not used to upgrading these machines. They run > currently like a dream but I don't want to fall a LONG ways behind in the > current kernels...:) Until a couple of months ago, our main production boxes were all running 2.2.2... We've upgraded them to 2.2.7 (mainly to get better pppd support) - they won't be going anywhere fast for a while either... When we took them down they both had uptimes well into the 350+ days :) - I guess with stuff this reliable it's easy for boxes to get out of date until you either find a problem - or want something they can't do (in 2.2.2, but can in 2.2.7 etc. ;-) If you really need UCD-SNMP (which I'll confess I don't really know what it is - some sort of snmp daemon/service?) - maybe someone can come up with a way of compiling it on 2.2.7 - unless it's really kernel dependant :( Regards, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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