Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 14:03:29 +0200 (CEST) From: James <james@fr.clara.net> To: Fredrik Olausson <fredrik@speechcraft.com> Cc: Stuart Duckworth <ITServices@cableinet.co.uk>, Dragon Singer <WM-Scace@wiu.edu>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hello, Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105281403020.21110-100000@munster.noc.fr.clara.net> In-Reply-To: <001b01c0e76d$b910c770$0e0101c0@CTHULHU>
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Sounds good to me :-) On Mon, 28 May 2001, Fredrik Olausson wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > The Packages can be a pain in the *rse...although sticking with > > stable has rarely caused problems...One thing I still haven't got to grips > > with on FreeBSD is an upgrade, (4.2 to 4.3 for example) To be honest I > > haven't needed to attempt it yet but it looks horrible ! :-) > > Hmm... I upgraded our server here at work from 4.0 to 4.2 not to long ago > and... well, I'm ashamed of admitting it but I basically blew the disks and > reinstalled completely. Later on, after thinking about this (some people > would use the word "rationalize" here), I figured that it might be a good > idea from a security standpoint to do a clean reinstall of the OS on wvery > major systems upgrade, that way you are forced to revisit the configuration > files and you make sure any back doors and other nasties are taken care of. > > -Fredrik > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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