Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 20:22:15 +0000 From: Stuart Henderson <sthen@naiad.eclipse.net.uk> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: ryu@ryu.net, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why should I upgrade from 2.2.8 to 3.4 Message-ID: <20000216202215.C77186@naiad.eclipse.net.uk> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000216131306.04465300@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 01:15:14PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002152357380.54931-100000@freefall.freebsd. <20000216072546.RDPI28348.mta04.onebox.com@onebox.com> <4.2.0.58.J.20000216100126.00a5b210@mail.webjapan.com> <4.2.2.20000216131306.04465300@localhost>
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On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 01:15:14PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 11:05 AM 2/16/2000 , Ryuhei Tanabe wrote: > > >Hello all > > > >I'm currently running freebsd 2.2.8-stable on my machine. Well of course, I ve been thinking of upgrading my server to 3.x-stable. > >But I'm sort of scared of that I might just screw my server when I upgrade it. > >Is there any specific things, I should be very careful when upgrading Freebsd from 2.2.8 to 3.x ? > > One thing that got me was the change in the format of wtmp and utmp. The record formats > are different, and since there wasn't a Perl module to hide this a lot of our > management scripts broke. Bootblocks, don't forget to make sure you have updated your bootblocks :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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