From owner-freebsd-security Wed Feb 16 12:15:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from builder.freebsd.org (builder.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 382B937B54F for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 12:15:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55AD2132F0 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 12:14:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA12565; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:15:20 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000216131306.04465300@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:15:14 -0700 To: ryu@ryu.net, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Why should I upgrade from 2.2.8 to 3.4 In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.J.20000216100126.00a5b210@mail.webjapan.com> References: <20000216072546.RDPI28348.mta04.onebox.com@onebox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:05 AM 2/16/2000 , Ryuhei Tanabe wrote: >Hello all > >I'm currently running freebsd 2.2.8-stable on my machine. Well of course, I ve been thinking of upgrading my server to 3.x-stable. >But I'm sort of scared of that I might just screw my server when I upgrade it. >Is there any specific things, I should be very careful when upgrading Freebsd from 2.2.8 to 3.x ? One thing that got me was the change in the format of wtmp and utmp. The record formats are different, and since there wasn't a Perl module to hide this a lot of our management scripts broke. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message