yow, after nearly 200 days of uptime i decided to upgrade my server to FreeBSD-6.0. The entire procedure took several hours on my 650Mhz AMD "Duron". the steps were as follows: * get sources ("/usr/src") via "cvs checkout" for 6.0 * "make buildworld" - building the world * "make buildkernel" - building a kernel * "make installkernel" - installing the new kernel * reboot into single-user-mode - rebooting ("boot -s") * "mergemaster -p" - pre-merging new and old (config) files * "make installworld" - installing the new world * "mergemaster" - final merging of files * "reboot" - final reboot to activate the new release the whole procedure was pretty straight-forward and described into detail in the handbook at the FreeBSD homepage. the custom kernel has been altered to include quota-support now too. after the upgrade there was a little inconsistency concerning the OpenSSH and OpenSSL version which was fixed by using the ports version of the application and the library. thanks to cjm (IPv6-support), geekU (general support on the upgrade-procedure) and laemodost (OpenSSH/OpenSSL issues) for support during the upgrade process. a lot of fun with the new FreeBSD-6.0 to all my users!