From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 29 2:54:48 2002 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 13CE737B401 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 02:54:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C626843E0A for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 02:54:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g5T9seuJ051635; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 21:54:40 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g5T9seNs051634; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 21:54:40 +1200 (NZST) Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 21:54:40 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Brian McCann Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch/Update via ports? Message-ID: <20020629095439.GA51595@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <014801c21f11$2a1af4f0$1500a8c0@mobilecube> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <014801c21f11$2a1af4f0$1500a8c0@mobilecube> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 10:03:29PM -0400, Brian McCann wrote: > Hi all...this is my first post/visit to the list. I'm a former Linux guy > who did a complete 180 an decided that after seeing FreeBSD, that Linux was > horrible, and FreeBSD was awesome! :) That being said...I have a simple > question. I have a few web servers already up and running on FreeBSD 4.5. > My problem is that the version of Apache they are running is the one that is > vulnerable to the new worm. My question is, how do I go about updating the > install without deinstalling and re-installing the port? I figured there's > gotta be a "make patch" command, but I don't want to mess up my production > boxes to try, and all my "play" boxes are newer, thus have the newer version > of Apache. I've already ran cvsup and gotten the newest ports collection, I > just need to know what commands to run to patch. Have a look at portupgrade. (/usr/ports/systuils/portupgrade). It should upgrade your port with minimal fuss. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "I don't want to achive immortality through my works.. I want to achieve it through not dying" - Woody Allen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message