From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 25 01:12:19 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECEAE16A41F for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 01:12:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akbeech@gmail.com) Received: from vfemail.net (miwi2dsl-a234.wi.tds.net [216.170.248.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 657D343D48 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 01:12:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akbeech@gmail.com) Received: (qmail 18519 invoked by uid 85); 25 Oct 2005 01:12:15 -0000 Received: from akbeech@gmail.com by mail.vfemail.net by uid 0 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (clamscan: 0.75.1. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:. Processed in 1.971258 secs); 25 Oct 2005 01:12:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.200?) (alaska@vfemail.net@209.124.141.64) by miwi2dsl-a234.wi.tds.net with RC4-MD5 encrypted SMTP; 25 Oct 2005 01:12:13 -0000 From: Beecher Rintoul Organization: NorthWind Communications To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:11:53 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1523637.rqLr346dNy"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200510241712.11320.akbeech@gmail.com> Cc: John DeStefano Subject: Re: updating in single-user mode X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 01:12:20 -0000 --nextPart1523637.rqLr346dNy Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 24 October 2005 02:24 pm, John DeStefano wrote: > When updating world, section 20.4.5 of the handbook calls for dropping > to single user mode. The reasons given for this make sense. But this > is a problem for me: my BSD server does not have a local K/V/M setup > connected directly to it; it sits on my network and I connect to it > via PuTTy for administration. > > Is there a way to achieve single-user mode while still being able to > connect remotely (via LAN)? (I know that's something of an oximoron, > but I needed to ask) And if not, am I losing any serious > features/functionality of the update process by _not_ dropping into > single user? > > Thanks, > ~John I don't reccommend doing installworld or kernel in multiuser, but I have ne= ver=20 had any problems doing it on a lightly loaded machine. With that said what= =20 could bite you is your new kernel not booting or something broken in=20 userland. You will then need console access (serial or local) to fix it. I= =20 would set up your machine with serial console access and use a laptop or=20 another machine when you reboot. Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - akbeech@gmail.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart1523637.rqLr346dNy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDXYZrVq19LUoGB+MRAo03AKCMtKFLenwo5MJHRc0Z8JVqjuJofQCgwBpb DL4kqnbIA3DPXvrPCwPw9yo= =yAV2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1523637.rqLr346dNy--