Which version of FreeBSD is it?

[Антон Клесс]

That is what I suspected for.

What is the most safe way to upgrade it, remembering that this is production
server and I have to keep it working properly?

6.2-RC1 -> 6.2 RELEASE -> 7.2 RELEASE -> 8.0 RELEASE, or somehow in this
style?



2010/3/17 Bas v.d. Wiel <bas at kompasmedia.nl>

>
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:56:20 +0300, Антон Клесс
> <antoniok.spb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have the server that's running FreeBSD for the last few years, but I
> saw
> > it only year ago and know nothing about when and how was installed
> FreeBSD
> > on it.
> >
> > # uname -a
> > FreeBSD myhost.net 6.2-RC1 FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 #4: Fri Mar  5 01:37:03 MSK
> > 2010     root at myhost.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERN  amd64
> >
> > Is it RELEASE, STABLE or what?
>
> It is what it says it is: 6.2-RC1, meaning Release Candidate 1. That's a
> development/test version. If this is a production system it would be a very
> good idea to replace it with the current 8.0 RELEASE, which will give you
> at least proper patch maintenance.
>
> Bas
>



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