Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2024 09:33:34 +0300 From: =?UTF-8?B?w5Z6Z8O8ciBLb25zdGFudGluIEthemFuw6fDp8Sx?= <ozgurkazancci@gmail.com> To: Karl Vogel <vogelke@pobox.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade 8.4-STABLE to 14-STABLE Message-ID: <CA%2BGnASfAdYXL8A=1XyYwbw3Bso-MDUrUYqX7vxk04wExmZxZ8w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4434uibfn6.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <ZbTRS3BKe07hoiNM@furbag.my.domain> <4434uibfn6.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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--00000000000012db33060ffbb671 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable That's the fact, below! It's a quite old release and exposing it to the Internet for ~10 years is itself a scary story, who knows what it contains in the background. I'd create a backup, do a fresh OS install from scratch, and restore everything to the new system. Is there any technical obstacle to not being able to do this? What services do you run there? Best, =C3=96zg=C3=BCr Konstantin Kazancci On Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 01:01 Lowell Gilbert < freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > It sounds like the system has been exposed to the Internet without > updates for about ten years. If that is the case, I wouldn't trust it > anyway, so upgrading it to something recent would be silly even if it > were easy. > > Be well. > > --00000000000012db33060ffbb671 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"auto"><div>That's the fact, below! It's a quite old rel= ease and exposing it to the Internet for ~10 years is itself a scary story,= who knows what it contains in the background.</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br><= /div><div dir=3D"auto">I'd create a backup, do a fresh OS install from = scratch, and restore everything to the new system. Is there any technical o= bstacle to not being able to do this?<br></div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div>= <div dir=3D"auto">What services do you run there?</div><div dir=3D"auto"><b= r></div><div dir=3D"auto">Best,</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir= =3D"auto">=C3=96zg=C3=BCr Konstantin Kazancci</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></= div><div dir=3D"auto"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote" dir=3D"auto"><div dir= =3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 01:01 Lowell Gilbert &l= t;<a href=3D"mailto:freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org">freebsd-questi= ons-local@be-well.ilk.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmai= l_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left= :1ex"></blockquote></div></div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto= "><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"mar= gin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It sounds like = the system has been exposed to the Internet without<br> updates for about ten years. If that is the case, I wouldn't trust it<b= r> anyway, so upgrading it to something recent would be silly even if it<br> were easy.<br> <br> Be well.<br> <br></blockquote></div></div></div> --00000000000012db33060ffbb671--
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