From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 1 14:18:24 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F340F106568D for ; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 14:18:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from skeezix@skeleton.org) Received: from mail1.dm.egate.net (mail1.dm.egate.net [216.235.1.135]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B807F8FC18 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 14:18:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fw.skeleton.org (h216-235-8-78.host.egate.net [216.235.8.78]) by mail1.dm.egate.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o11EJKYs085953; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 09:19:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from fw.skeleton.org (fw.skeleton.org [127.0.0.1]) by fw.skeleton.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id o11EQH6s083634; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 09:26:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from skeezix@skeleton.org) Received: from localhost (skeezix@localhost) by fw.skeleton.org (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) with ESMTP id o11EQHrq083631; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 09:26:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from skeezix@skeleton.org) X-Authentication-Warning: fw.skeleton.org: skeezix owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 09:26:17 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Mitchell To: Ruben de Groot In-Reply-To: <20100201134048.GA60852@ei.bzerk.org> Message-ID: <20100201092358.D36480@fw.skeleton.org> References: <20100130225014.C36480@fw.skeleton.org> <20100131083351.GA26019@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20100201134048.GA60852@ei.bzerk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Roland Smith , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:18:25 -0000 On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Ruben de Groot wrote: # > The GENERIC kernel in 8.0 comes with the COMPAT_FREEBSD5 option by default, so # > the only thing you need to do is to install the misc/compat5x port. # # That is, if the executables weren't dependent on compat[2-4] options in the kernel on the old server ;) Hahahahaha ha ha h ... erm :/ We'll see :) # Yes, you could even try coying the entire old disk to a subdirectory and # running that as a jail. Should bring you up quickly, giving you more time # to migrate all applications proper. I considered this (or just VMing the whole box), but I'd still be going through to trim out the union of ports (ie: ssh common port etc), so heck with it. I do think I'm going to jail like mad this time through though; ie: stick apache into a jail, stick groupware server into a jail, stick mailing list into a jail, etc; for things that are well defined and should be something considered for peeling to another server some day, just jail them outright from the onset .. better security and help keep me from bleeding lines between services. Good tip :) Not that I've set up a jail before, but nows as good a time as any to learn :) jeff -- If everyone would put barbecue sauce on their food, there would be no war.