Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 08:57:43 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Production Machine, Custom Kernel, Updating to P9 Message-ID: <20030323135743.GA97849@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <20030323080106.3D7195499@bert.int.kts.org> References: <20030322125653.V11496@seven.alameda.net> <20030323080106.3D7195499@bert.int.kts.org>
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Ashes to ashes, and DOS to DOS Hellmuth Michaelis was heard to say on or about Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 09:01 : > Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > > > Here is in short form what I do in production machines: > > cvsup (RELENG_4 or RELENG_4_7 depending what it runs) > > cd /usr/src > > make buildworld > > make buildkernel KERNCONF=<customkernelname> > > make installkernel KERNCON=<customkernelname> > > make installworld > > mergemaster > > I am doing it all the time, even on machines remotely, with no consoles. > Do you bring down the machine to single user mode for "make > installworld" ? > If not, what is your experience with doing a "make installworld" on a > running system ? Unless you have a way in through serial ports you do have to be up in multi-user mode to be able to get into the machine via a network - unless someone has some magic commands that I'm not aware of. I do the above - and since they are remoted machines - I do them in step - and run the commands with a command like nohup make buildworld & Then I log out. I check later and look at the nohup.out and if it's ok go to the next step. I only do the make installworld if the kernel reboot into multi-user mode fails - and it has never failed so far. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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