From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 3 11:23: 8 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94BD437B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:23:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52E2B43F79 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:23:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h13JOQT5071947; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:24:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E3EC13F.50403@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 14:21:35 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Xochellis Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving form 4.2 to 4.7 References: <3E3EBD1B.33971D74@escape.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim Xochellis wrote: > Hi list, > > I have a FreeBSD 4.2 (i386) box that I am using as a router and it is > mainly running routed, pppd, ipf-filter, ipnat and sshd. I wan't to > upgrade this machine to FreeBSD 4.7 for security reasons only. Is there > something really important that I should have in mind when doing this > upgrade. (Any major compatibility issue, or security issue, patches that > I should definitely add, etc...) Are you going to use cvs to update? You probably want to update to RELENG_4_7 to get all the latest security fixes for 4.7. Also, read /usr/src/UPDATING carefully and follow the upgrading instructions in the hanbook to the letter. 4.2 -> 4.7 is a pretty long way to go, but I don't know of any reason you should fail at it. Make sure you make good backups before starting, however, you don't want to get burned if I'm wrong. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message