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From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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Subject: Re: 5 to 6 
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> From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:39:18 -0500
> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> 
> do folk actually successfully upgrade
> 
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD psg.com 5.5-STABLE FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE #15: Sun Oct  1 18:41:24 GMT 2006     root@psg.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PSG  i386
> 
> to RELENG_6  *safely* on a many-user production system using the
> instructions in UPDATING?

I have done so on a number of systems. I updated all of our NTP servers
(about a dozen of them scattered all over the country) a couple of weeks
ago without any problems at all. I do have OOB console access to them.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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