From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 1 4:51:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from firewall2.lehman.com (firewall.Lehman.COM [192.147.65.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82674150A2 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 04:51:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nclayton@lehman.com) Received: from relay.messaging-svcs2.lehman.com by firewall2.lehman.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) id HAA04744; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 07:51:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from lonmailhost.lehman.com by relay.messaging-svcs2.lehman.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) id HAA29229; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 07:50:53 -0500 (EST) Received: by lonmailhost.lehman.com (SMI-8.6/Lehman Bros. V1.5) id NAA01925; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 13:50:52 +0100 Message-ID: <19990401135052.T14492@lehman.com> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 13:50:52 +0100 From: nclayton@lehman.com To: Broderick Wood , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: From 2.2.8 to 3.0 References: <199903312037.NAA27845@mark.KingsU.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199903312037.NAA27845@mark.KingsU.ab.ca>; from Broderick Wood on Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 01:37:06PM -0700 Organization: Lehman Brothers Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 01:37:06PM -0700, Broderick Wood wrote: > I am just starting to use CVSup to try to stay up to date on the > STABLE line. > > I am currently running 2.2.8-STABLE and want to go to the > RELENG=STABLE_3 version. > > Any good sites on hints/tips and warnings? > > P.S> This is a production server ... ;-) If it really is a production server then the best advice I can give you is to not do it. Get another machine, upgrade that, and then slowly migrate services from the production server to the new machine. When everything's migrated over then you can upgrade the ex-production server. Just because the OS hasn't cost you $$$ doesn't mean that you shouldn't follow best practices when using it. Also, make sure you've got a good reason to go to 3.1. If 2.2.8 does everything you need, and is stable, then why bother upgrading? N -- --+==[ Systems Administrator, Year 2000 Test Lab, Lehman Brothers, Inc. ]==+-- --+==[ 1 Broadgate, London, EC2M 7HA 0171-601-0011 x5514 ]==+-- --+==[ Year 2000 Testing: It's about time. . . ]==+-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message