User guide

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Freeway User Guide
If you are still undecided, learning what features and bug fixes you will gain by upgrad-
ing to the new version may help you decide. If you insert your new Freeway CDROM
into any machine with a web browser, you can find the release notes and the release
notes history (or take the plain text versions of those files directly from the root of the
CDROM; they are the files “relnotes.ser” and “relhist.ser”). Those files will describe the
changes that were made since the Freeway version that you are currently running, and
should help you decide whether you would benefit from upgrading. (To find the soft-
ware version you are currently running, look at the version string which appears at the
top of the Freeway Main Menu, immediately after you log in to your Freeway).
If you are still unsure about installing the update, you can always contact Protogate cus-
tomer support and they will recommend the best course of action for you to take.
7.2 Installing Freeway Server Software Updates
Freeway server software updates the FreewayOS, DLI/TSI Library, Web Server, and
other components relating to the FreeBSD operating system. The Freeway server soft-
ware is released when features and functions are added or changed. A server software
release may also be prompted when modules within the operating system have been
updated for security reasons.
Note
The recommended procedure for upgrading a Freeway has
changed, starting with the “X-B” Freeway release CDROM (based
on Freeway 3.1-3), which was released on 12 May, 2004. The previ-
ous method should still be used for all Freeway releases prior to
that.
Beginning with the 3.1-3 Freeway release, the Freeway install CDROM will by default
attempt to save existing configuration files and protocol image files before initializing
the Freeway disk, then will restore those files after loading the new software onto the