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Sounds good to me :-)

On Mon, 28 May 2001, Fredrik Olausson wrote:

> 
> ----- 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
> 
> 


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