From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 16 17:03:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 8515516A427 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:03:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1E8A43D45 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:03:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 412D95E1E; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:03:28 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fUmxDtIoXG+c; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:03:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-160-235-217.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.160.235.217]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30BD25C61; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:03:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <444278E0.9030301@mac.com> Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:03:28 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grant Peel References: <00bc01c66175$66ac65c0$6401a8c0@GRANT> In-Reply-To: <00bc01c66175$66ac65c0$6401a8c0@GRANT> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: First Upgrade SUCCESS! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:03:29 -0000 Grant Peel wrote: [ ... ] > 1). Is there a simpler way to run mergmaster. What I wound up doing > after going blind reading all the diffs, and saying I would 'Deal With > Them LAter" was to re-run it and hit 'i' to accept the newly installed > version, as the manpage states 'i' is the most commonly used one. So the > question is, is all I really need to deal with now, rc.conf, > master.passwd, group, sshd_config etc? Should I be accepting 99% of them > with 'i'? You can accept about 95% of them with 'i'. Do a "ls -ltr /etc" and worry about merging only those that have been changed recently, or at least after the OS was first installed. > 2). I have a 4.10 and 4.7 server that I need to upgraded. Can I go from > them to 6.1 (When RCn is released?) Or will I need to upgrade to 5.x > first? Or, would a virgin install be better here? You could go to 5.5 and then to 6, but it's probably easier to do a binary reinstall (possibly on a new drive? a 4.7 machine would have ~5 year or disks in it)... > 3). My Primary nameserver is running 5.2.1. Will it be safe, i.e. will > the upgrade process leave my MySQL and BIND setups alone? If not, what > must I do to save them? (Other than backing them up, which I of course > will do). Ugh. :-) You should upgrade anything running 5.2.1 to 5.5 or 6. > 4). My Secondary nameserver is 4.4 (Yeah, I know ...). Is it safe to > upgrade it simlar to whatever the answer to '2' above is? i.e. straight > to 6.1, or 5.x first, or clean install? Build out new 6.x machines and transition your services off your old hardware, if you can? You're going to experience less downtime than trying to upgrade in place, and if DNS is mission-critical, you ought to prioritize keeping it going... -- -Chuck