From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 24 14:13:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA07081 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 14:13:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (ns2.BEACH.net [209.25.4.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA07074 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 14:13:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id VAA12037; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 21:13:10 GMT Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 14:13:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: jack cc: "Jacob J. Pinsky" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading a currently running FreeBSD machine In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, jack wrote: > Be sure to save your /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf before you start. > Those two files, along with /etc/ppp/ppp.conf and /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup, are > overwritten before /etc is saved. :( Hmmmm. That must be a real recent glitch in the install. I upgraded my home pc to 2.2.1 in early May and didn't see this. I could have lost hosts and resolv.conf without noticing/remembering but if ppp had gotten zapped I know I would have remembered that! Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82