From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 6 10:23:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.122.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36EB137B422; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 10:23:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e86HNlF70906; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 10:23:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 10:23:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Rolandas Naujikas Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to update -STABLE from remote location ? In-Reply-To: <20000906081601.A39240@uosis.mif.vu.lt> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Rolandas Naujikas wrote: > I'm administrator of a server with FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE. > Before some time I found than it is not possible replace executable > and shared libraries when are used for execution ("Text file busy" error > message). So how can I update my -STABLE from remote location ? You shouldn't, unless you have a serial console, and even then it's quite dangerous. When doing installworld you should shutdown to single-user mode to prevent any conflicts or damage. > I'm thinking abount alternate disk partitions for /usr, /var and /, so I > would be able to update into alternate location, and switch rootdev to > updated location. How I can switch to boot from different partition ? Playing with boot options from remote really gives me the willies. Also upgrading production systems is a good way to screw things up. > P.S. I'm sorry for my language. You weren't swearing, if that's what you were apologizing for. :) Your English is fine -- be proud. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message