From owner-freebsd-stable Sun May 13 13:28:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9556437B422 for ; Sun, 13 May 2001 13:28:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4DKXtB01042; Sun, 13 May 2001 13:35:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200105132035.f4DKXtB01042@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Hugh Blandford" Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running Stable on remote production server In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 13 May 2001 22:26:32 +1000." <006c01c0dba7$f21a38c0$0bdea8c0@island.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 13:33:55 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message