From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 21 23:14:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA24620 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 23:14:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt050n33.san.rr.com [204.210.31.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA24578 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 06:14:53 GMT (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Received: from san.rr.com (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA07321; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 23:14:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Message-ID: <353D8ADA.C7C987CA@san.rr.com> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 23:14:50 -0700 From: Studded Reply-To: FreeBSD Questions Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE-0420 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Frader CC: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggestions on patching kernel src References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This question actually belongs on freebsd-questions, please reply there if needed. John Frader wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a machine running 2.2.1 that I want to apply the recent security > patches to(foof, land etc...) but it seems that the patches are for newer > src code than is on the machine. I don't want to do a make world incase > for some reason something went wrong (the machine is in use and is 4 hours > away) and was wondering if it would go ok to cvsup just a new src tree and > recompile? Never ever ever upgrade just the kernel. This is several times more important when you are upgrading across version numbers. There is an excellent tutorial on how to make world, including tips for remote upgrading. You can find it at http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html. I upgrade machines remotely all the time, just follow the steps on that tutorial to the letter and you'll be ok. Good luck, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message