From owner-freebsd-security Wed Feb 16 12:22:38 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 62BB937B53D for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 12:22:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sthen@naiad.eclipse.net.uk) Received: from naiad.eclipse.net.uk (naiad.eclipse.net.uk [195.188.32.29]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C768A132E6 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 12:21:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by naiad.eclipse.net.uk (Postfix, from userid 475) id C8A36146EF; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 20:22:15 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 20:22:15 +0000 From: Stuart Henderson To: Brett Glass Cc: ryu@ryu.net, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why should I upgrade from 2.2.8 to 3.4 Message-ID: <20000216202215.C77186@naiad.eclipse.net.uk> References: <4.2.0.58.J.20000216100126.00a5b210@mail.webjapan.com> <4.2.2.20000216131306.04465300@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.2i In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000216131306.04465300@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 01:15:14PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 01:15:14PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > 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. Bootblocks, don't forget to make sure you have updated your bootblocks :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message