From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 11 15:45:28 2002 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 E4FF937B406 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 15:45:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.au.darkbluesea.com (mail.au.darkbluesea.com [203.185.208.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E24F43E3B for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 15:45:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from d.anker@au.darkbluesea.com) Received: (qmail 27217 invoked by uid 82); 11 Sep 2002 22:44:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.188?) (10.0.0.188) by mail.au.darkbluesea.com with SMTP; 11 Sep 2002 22:44:24 -0000 Subject: Re: make installworld in multiuser mode? From: Duncan Anker To: Burhan Nazir Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20020911132822.GN8439@host-123.syseng.cableinet.net> References: <20020911132822.GN8439@host-123.syseng.cableinet.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 12 Sep 2002 08:43:27 +1000 Message-Id: <1031784207.7294.1.camel@duncan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 23:28, Burhan Nazir wrote: > Is it safe for me to run "make installworld" remotely via SSH? I am running > freebsd4.6 and wish to upgrade to 4.6_2 and would rather not drag myself down > the lab and plug in a monitor to run in single user mode. > Yes it is. I've done it several times. Just be sure to kill -HUP `cat /var/run/sshd.pid` after the upgrade or you won't be able to reconnect after logging out. Or you can just reboot if you prefer. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message