Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:58:50 -0800 (PST) From: Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM> To: "Eric L. Hinson" <erich@ip.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading 2.1.6 to 2.1.7 w/o interuption of service? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970227135401.438O-100000@mail.MCESTATE.COM> In-Reply-To: <199702272117.QAA02164@galanga.ip.org>
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On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Eric L. Hinson wrote: Greetings all, > I have several systems that I maintain for an ISP that I would like to > upgrade to 2.1.7. (one is a 2.1.6.1 machine, and the other is an older > 2.1-STABLE (shortly after after 2.1.0-RELEASE came out). > > However, I'm unclear as to which method I should use to facilitate this > switch with as little disruption to users as possible. Any insight would > be most appreciated. > > Thanks for your time and help with this matter. What I did was the following: Have two login sessions on the machine then: 1) make a backup copy of /etc 2) kill the sendmail process since mail will be returned unknown. 3) cd /usr/temp 4) ftp each distribution separately in 2.1.7-RELEASE 5) chmod +x * ; ./install.sh 6) rm -rf * 7) repeat steps 4-7 8) cd /etc 9) compare backup copy of /etc to the new copy and commit the diffs make sure you restore the master.passwd, passwd, pwd.db, spwd.db from the backup to /etc 10) Compile a new kernel and shutdown and reboot the machine. Hope this helps. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]
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