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FreeBSD upgrading
By admin | April 29, 2008
Upgrading FreeBSD is a faily simple process for the end user, although the actual work done is anything but simple. For the end user, there are six commands whichmust be executed. For the computer, those six commands comprise hundreds of thousands of optimization flags and compile commands. The fact that the FreeBSD design team has managed to get all this into six simple commands is nothing short of amazing.
Not only is it amazing, but you can make it even simpler by using a combination of scripting and the cron daemon, which runs commands and scripts periodically. Imagine putting those cmmands into two files (one to be run before rebooting, and one to be run five minutes later afterward) and then setting your system up to run them automatically via cron every night. You’d have a fresh new system perfectly up to date each night!
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