Updating your Endian FireWall Community Edition appliance
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/11/08
When updating one of my Endian FireWall Community Edition VMs, I found out that one of my test VMs was still at version 2.2rc3.
Two important points: The update site (which you can use if you registered) tells you to follow 5 steps to keep your Endian Firewall Community up to date, but forgets to:
- point you to the Endian documentation on enabling SSH
- mention that one of the steps is conditional, and the condition is phrased “If your Endian Firewall Community is older than version 2.2“.
Note that all the 2.2 rc versions are considered older than version 2.2, so in those cases, you also need to perform this:
Then run the upgrade script:
efw-upgrade
Inside it, type the email address you registered, wait a few minutes until it downloaded and installed all the update RPMs, and finally:
Reboot!
The reboot is not needed per se. But after a big update, it is always good practice to see if it still survices a reboot.
Finally test if all the features you had in use, still work.
They should, but again: better safe than sorry.
–jeroen
via: Endian – EFW Community Welcome .
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