Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 13:59:58 +0200 From: "Fredrik Olausson" <fredrik@speechcraft.com> To: "James" <james@fr.clara.net> Cc: "Stuart Duckworth" <ITServices@cableinet.co.uk>, "Dragon Singer" <WM-Scace@wiu.edu>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Hello, Message-ID: <001b01c0e76d$b910c770$0e0101c0@CTHULHU> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105281151580.21110-100000@munster.noc.fr.clara.net>
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----- Original Message ----- > The Packages can be a pain in the *rse...although sticking with > stable has rarely caused problems...One thing I still haven't got to grips > with on FreeBSD is an upgrade, (4.2 to 4.3 for example) To be honest I > haven't needed to attempt it yet but it looks horrible ! :-) Hmm... I upgraded our server here at work from 4.0 to 4.2 not to long ago and... well, I'm ashamed of admitting it but I basically blew the disks and reinstalled completely. Later on, after thinking about this (some people would use the word "rationalize" here), I figured that it might be a good idea from a security standpoint to do a clean reinstall of the OS on wvery major systems upgrade, that way you are forced to revisit the configuration files and you make sure any back doors and other nasties are taken care of. -Fredrik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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