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Date:      Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:49:23 +0300
From:      Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com>
To:        Schiz0 <schiz0phrenic21@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Upgrading from p2 to p3 on 7.0
Message-ID:  <487B7583.70207@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <8d23ec860807140842x44907d94maf86928f7ca6a322@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <8d23ec860807140842x44907d94maf86928f7ca6a322@mail.gmail.com>

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Schiz0 wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm running 7.0-RELEASE-p2 on a production box. I'm aware that -p3 was
> released, which is a security patch for BIND. Is there any way to
> compile and install the changed files without restarting the system? I
> do run BIND as a caching daemon, so I would like to keep it up to
> date.
>
> Thanks.
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You do not have to restart the system, this is not a kernel update (and 
FreeBSD is not windows ;) ). It is sufficient to restart bind (if you 
are actually using it):

/etc/rc.d/named restart

will do it.

As for getting the update, just do:

freebsd-update fetch install



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