From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 13 7:32: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nova.anchoragerescue.org (95-7-237-24-cable.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17A9637B4EC for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 07:30:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (localhost.anchoragerescue.org [127.0.0.1]) by nova.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA12F3409; Mon, 13 May 2002 06:30:47 -0800 (AKDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul Reply-To: akbeech@sinbad.net To: Rob Gridley Subject: Re: Kernel and userland versions Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 06:30:47 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: In-Reply-To: Organization: Sinbad Network Communications Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020513143047.BA12F3409@nova.anchoragerescue.org> 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 On Monday 13 May 2002 05:30 am, you wrote: > Sorry if this sounds like a newbie question. I haven't been able to find an > answer anywhere else. > > I know running say a 4.x kernel with a 3.x system is a bad idea, but what > about a 4.5-RELEASE-p4 kernel with a 4.5-RELEASE system? Is this a problem? > > I have to recompile the kernel for other reasons and I saw that p4 has some > security updates, but I'd rather not 'make world'. Just extra work for me! > > Thanks! > > > Rob Gridley | 416.626.1777 > System Administrator | rob@mhzdesign.com > MHz Design Communications | http://www.mhzdesign.com It's never a good idea to run a kernel that's out of sync with the userland. The only time you should boot from a different kernel is in an emergency. The kernel / userland really a matched unit and getting them out of sync will definately cause you extra work down the road. Also don't forget to do a mergemaster after you update. Beech -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - SysAdmin - akbeech@sinbad.net /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Sinbad Network Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 3101 Penland Parkway #K-38 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99508-1957 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message