Re: How to upgrade FreeBSD release
Simon Striker wrote: Hi! I am pretty newby to FreeBSD and I have one question. I have some Linux (Slackware) servers and I intend to reinstall them with FreeBSD. When I will have to upgrade something on them, I will do that with portupgrade. But when yesterday FreeBSD 5.4 released I wondered how could I upgrade to newer release? If for instance one day I will administrate 30 servers, will I have to reinstall them all with new release or is there any other way to upgrade to newer release? I would like to hear about your experiences with server administration. Thanks in advance for any response or piece of advice! Best regards, Simon Reinstall is not necessary. In short, get the 5.4 release source somehow (cvsup, for example), and build/install new system binaries and kernel. Freebsd handbook section 19 details the upgrade process pretty well - start reading there. If this is your first upgrade, I don't have to tell you to try it on a non production box first ^_^ As far as doing 30 or more servers, I've never done it so this is a bit of speculation. Look into using nfs or setting up a local cvsup server for distributing the source. The archives might have more information on this subject. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
World version
Hi, Simple question: how can I tell what version of the system binaries I'm running? Flame-proofing follows. Searches on this mailing list and google tell me 'uname -a' is the ticket, but that doesn't seem to get what I want. Here's the testing I've done. * Install 5.3 from cd on two machines * CVSup /usr/src on both to 5.4-STABLE * On box #1, I configure/upgrade just the kernel (using the old way) * On box #2, I do the entire 'make buildworld' through 'mergemaster' as per handbook section 19.4 My understanding is that on box #1 I'm running a 5.4 kernel with 5.3 system binaries (which is a bad thing to do). Box #2 is 5.4 for both. Here's the uname output for both boxes: box #1: FreeBSD name.domain 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #2: Thu Apr 21 12:02:07 EDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/FIREWALL i386 box #2: FreeBSD name.domain 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Fri May 6 09:46:40 EDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SANDBOX i386 I know the first box has 5.3 binaries, but uname -a doesn't indicate that. So how can I tell the first box has mismatched kernel/userspace? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Enabling Gratuitous ARP
Adam Smith wrote: Hi, In a particular network scenario we have, swapping an ethernet link between two FreeBSD machines using the same IP and a different MAC is proving to be a problem. We have discovered that in order to make this work we will need to enable gratuitous ARP. Does anyone know how to turn this feature on? Cheers, Couldn't you simply change the mac address on the second machine to match the one on the first? This assumes, of course, that the two machines will not be on the network at the same time. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sysinstall + CVSup or just CVSup?
Hi, I've installed FreeBSD 5.3 using the minimum install option, and would like to immediately install the ports collection. What I've done in the past is sysinstall via ftp and then CVSup to update. Is that insane? Can I just CVSup and forget about the sysinstall? Is one method quicker than the other? Maybe there's a better method altogether... Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sysinstall + CVSup or just CVSup?
Nick Pavlica wrote: Chris, I alway install the ports that I want during my initial installation so I'm not sure what the best post installation method is. I would venture to say that cvsup would be you best bet. --Nick My goal is to have the latest ports, regardless of which ones I actually want to install. I guess my question is more can I CVSup without first installing the ports collection, and if I do so, does that save time or take longer? - Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
question about mysql-server.sh
Hi, Long story made short: The mysql-server.sh that came with mysql-server-4.1.10a (installed from cvsup'ed ports) wouldn't work until after I rebooted the server. It's working now, so I know I shouldn't complain, but anyone know what happened? Long story: 1. Minimum installation, added ports distribution, cvsup to latest ports. 2. cd /usr/ports/mysql41-server; make install 3. '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start' does nothing. 4. I noticed that rc_subr wasn't installed, even though freshports says it is required. So I installed rc_subr from ports, but still no love. 5. I put mysql_enable=YES in rc.conf (since I would soon want it there anyway) and restarted the server. 6. mysql-server.sh works like a charm now. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help shine some light on what might have changed that made mysql-server.sh work. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
