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Date:      Tue, 20 Oct 1998 11:10:56 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Paul Stewart <pstewart@kawartha.com>
To:        Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.0 Upgrade Question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.981020111015.3743A-100000@shell.kawartha.com>
In-Reply-To: <362C94ED.2A49B872@tdx.co.uk>

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What about running the upgrade feature in sysinstall??  This would upgrade
the entire box correct?

OR, is it wise to install whatever version we want onto a new server and
then transfer over the user files etc. one by one...:)

Paul


On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Karl Pielorz wrote:

> 
> Paul Stewart wrote:
> 
> > On a side note, we have several machines running on 122597-SNAP releases.
> > They are running just fine except I can't compile UCD-SNMP on them which
> > is now needed.  So, I was thinking of updating them to 3.0-RELEASE.  Am I
> > playing with fire again?  I can't take these machines offline for a long
> > period of time.  Can I CVSUP them to the newest kernel trees and remake
> > the kernel?  Is this a safe practice?
> 
> If you mean run a 3.0 kernel with a 2.2.7 utils/bin tree? - No, that's asking
> for trouble... It would brake lots of things like ps etc. just for starters...
> (If that is what you meant?)
>  
> > As you can tell, I'm not used to upgrading these machines.  They run
> > currently like a dream but I don't want to fall a LONG ways behind in the
> > current kernels...:)
> 
> Until a couple of months ago, our main production boxes were all running
> 2.2.2... We've upgraded them to 2.2.7 (mainly to get better pppd support) -
> they won't be going anywhere fast for a while either... When we took them down
> they both had uptimes well into the 350+ days :) - I guess with stuff this
> reliable it's easy for boxes to get out of date until you either find a
> problem - or want something they can't do (in 2.2.2, but can in 2.2.7 etc. ;-)
> 
> If you really need UCD-SNMP (which I'll confess I don't really know what it is
> - some sort of snmp daemon/service?) - maybe someone can come up with a way of
> compiling it on 2.2.7 - unless it's really kernel dependant :(
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Karl
> 
> 


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