Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 13:33:55 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Hugh Blandford" <hugh@island.net.au> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running Stable on remote production server Message-ID: <200105132035.f4DKXtB01042@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 May 2001 22:26:32 %2B1000." <006c01c0dba7$f21a38c0$0bdea8c0@island.net.au>
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> I have been reading the instructions for tracking stable and what is
> recommended in the way of procedures. It seems from this that it would be
> extremely hard to follow these recommendations for a remote POP. IE moving
> to single user mode and on the whole messing with the machine for several
> hours at a time.
It's entirely unnecessary to go single-user when updating a machine; just
rebuild the world, optionally run mergemaster, and reboot.
Exceptions to this rule do occur, but they're *extremely* rare.
--
... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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