I'm new to this list, so here's a hello, how are you to everyone on the list! I'm coming to FreeBSD from a Linux background, so whilst some things are pretty similar, some things are pretty different. Two questions to kickstart my participation on this list: 1.) How exactly do I know whether I am running the STABLE or CURRENT release, as when I run uname I can only see the following relevant info: FreeBSD server4.domain.info 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Sep 23 13:52:48 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/SERVER4> domain.info:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/SERVER4 i386 And which file do I change to use a different release, and how must I update the system to pull in this latest release?
2.) I'm a bit confused as to updating the system. As I understand, there are 3 areas which require updates: i. Ports ii. Security updates iii. Kernel updates I know how to perform the first two, but for kernel updates I can't seen to find a consistent unified method with talk of the "traditional" way and the "latest" way. What is the best way to keep my FreeBSD 6.x system up2date? 3.) One of my new FreeBSD 6.0 servers went down recently. This was odd as the actual server was hardly busy, but filesystem errors came up when booting up the server. After running fsck, server would be up for about an hour and then go down again. This kept happening and so I initially thought it was due to overheating. However cooling was all good, so after further investigation and googling I diagnosed the problem as being the background fsck which for some reason was failing, causing the server to shutdown and upon reboot requiring a manual fsck. I've fixed this by disabling the background fsck and forcing the bootup fsck in /etc/rc.conf. At least then if the server goes down again it will fix itself with a full fsck when booting up. My question is whether this is okay, and has anyone experienced this same problem with their system? And why has the background fsck been failing? Where can i find further info? Any help with these questions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Suhail. www.siterollout.com <http://www.siterollout.com/> _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"