This is addressed to those of you who use NetBSD to do serious work. Here
we use one as the principal DNS server. It will soon be a DHCP server. It
may never be a mail server (the rest of DND is going to Exchange and we
will probably have to follow suit).

When you upgrade, how do you proceed to minimize down time? Do you build a
fresh system on a spare box and them swap? Do you use the upgrade option
of sysinst? if so, how do you handle the modofied files in /etc?

This is not so much a technical question as a procedural one. I expect to
be upgrading regularly as new and better versions come out.

Thanks.

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Claude Marinier, Information Technology Group    claude.marinier@dreo.dnd.ca 
Defence Research Establishment Ottawa (DREO)    (613) 998-4901  FAX 998-2675
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