From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 7 8: 4:50 2003 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 93C4437B401 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 08:04:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from diana.northnetworks.ca (att-ws20.switchview.com [216.13.70.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A793F43FBD for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 08:04:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from iaccounts@northnetworks.ca) Received: from localhost (iaccounts@localhost) by diana.northnetworks.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h27G4jf33405; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 11:04:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from iaccounts@northnetworks.ca) Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 11:04:44 -0500 (EST) From: IAccounts To: Bill Moran Cc: freebsd Subject: Re: 4.3 -> RELENG_4 In-Reply-To: <3E68B38F.70601@potentialtech.com> Message-ID: <20030307105828.L6974-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 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 > If the scenerio I described above seems to fit, yes. Sounds like things > are going well. If you want to be REAL paranoid, you could try rebuilding > your kernel with IFPW_DEFAULT_ACCEPT (or whatever that option is) and make > sure you have network connectivity before continuing. > > I wouldn't bother if it were me. It sounds like things are going well. > The main thing you're looking for is that the new kernel actually BOOTs. > Drop to single-user mode and do the installworld. I went ahead and did installworld. The IPFW problem dissapeared immediatly. All I had to do was add the smmsp user as per UPDATING, and it went slick from there. Small issues were: - a depricated line in sshd_config, which I manually commented out - sig 11 on nmbd, for which I will upgrade samba (should fix it) All in all, I am very exited as my amanda box now uname -a with FreeBSD-4.8RC, and is back in full production. I have began syncing source on my mission critical boxes, and plan on starting the upgrade on them next week. I did mergemaster on amanda box, but must of did something wrong as afterwards, my /etc/master.passwd file was missing. Copied it back from backup and all is well. mergemaster didn't seem to touch anything except for it, so next time I will likely just do the manual thing. Thanks for all of your help, which gave me the confidence to proceed in this delicate manner. However, I should of known that with the stability of Free that I really had nothing to worry about from the beginning! Steve > > -- > Bill Moran > Potential Technologies > http://www.potentialtech.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message