keeping my freebsd secure...

[Haim Ashkenazi]

On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 15:55, David Wolfskill wrote:
> First, there will be *some* downtime.  However, it should be a matter of
> seconds, not minutes (or more), as it is quite possible to compile a new
> port before uninstalling the old one.
> 
> Indeed, "portupgrade" (in the ports) does just that.
> 
> Another way you can help yourself is have another system for doing builds,
> one that does not provide "externally visible" services.  You could then
> build packages on that system, for installation on your "production"
> systems.
> 
> That said, if you really want *no* downtime, you will need to investigate
> HA ("high availability") system design, and have multiple (at least 2)
> machines providing any given service, with a mechanism for failover.
well, I guess I can live with a few seconds of downtime. 

thanx
-- 
Haim
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