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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Upgrading 2.1.0 to 2.1.7 - how to? Date: 11 Mar 1997 14:22:50 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 29 Message-ID: <5g3prq$nje@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5elbnc$l89@shellx.best.com> <5fbkre$9mf@uriah.heep.sax.de> <E6HHI4.BqM@nonexistent.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36907 le@put.com (Louis Epstein) wrote: > : You gotta replace all of them. It's probably the simplest way to just > : use the upgrade option of sysinstall -- but make sure you've got > : proper backups in place, in particular of your /etc directory. > > Where would I put the backups? On the tape drive where you put your nightly backups, too. ;-) If you're only concerned about /etc, that'll fit onto a floppy disk. > My 2.1 kernel was recompiled for long user IDs,can the affected files > be patched back in to 2.1.7 or must the process be repeated? I'm not sure what the affected files are. I would probably repeat the process. The good news: FreeBSD 3.0 will finally allow for longer usernames by default. > (What improvements can be expected as a result of this upgrade?) Security and other bug fixes mostly. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)