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Date:      Wed, 12 Dec 2001 09:19:44 -0500
From:      "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net>
To:        "Filipe Brandenburger" <filipe@procergs.rs.gov.br>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Doing "batch" updates in single-user mode
Message-ID:  <20011212141901.A90B037B41C@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20011212100146.00a6f420@imap.procergs.rs.gov.br>

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On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 10:11:36 -0300, Filipe Brandenburger wrote:

>I have two reasons for that. One is that I have to manage many (30+) hosts 
>with FreeBSD, and I would like to update all (or most) of them at the same 
>time. Other reason is that I would like to be able to schedule this kind of 
>update to 3:00AM or something like that, so that fewer people will be 
>affected by the downtime of the host, and I would like to do this update 
>without the need to be at the business to have to type the commands. Ok, I 
>know this would probably be too dangerous to do without watching, but hey, 
>if I test it before on a testing machine, I don't see much trouble in doing 
>this...

the problem is not all src upgrades go perfect.  the problem is
sometime the src will crash and not install.  then your server is down.
 if your running servers, the best thing to do is wait for the release
b4 up upgrade

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doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net

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