From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Oct 20 07:49:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA22223 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 07:49:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from unix.kawartha.com (unix.kawartha.com [204.101.15.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA22212 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 07:49:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pstewart@kawartha.com) Received: from shell.kawartha.com (shell.kawartha.com [204.101.15.43]) by unix.kawartha.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA24388; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 10:53:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 11:10:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Stewart To: Karl Pielorz cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 Upgrade Question In-Reply-To: <362C94ED.2A49B872@tdx.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org What about running the upgrade feature in sysinstall?? This would upgrade the entire box correct? OR, is it wise to install whatever version we want onto a new server and then transfer over the user files etc. one by one...:) Paul On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Karl Pielorz wrote: > > 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 reliable it's easy for boxes to get out of date until you either find a 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