From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 2 18:58:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA15780 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 18:58:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.double-barrel.be (mail.double-barrel.be [194.7.102.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA15726 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 18:58:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mvergall@mail.double-barrel.be) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.double-barrel.be (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA00891; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 03:54:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mvergall@mail.double-barrel.be) Received: from ns.double-barrel.be(194.7.102.18) via SMTP by mail.double-barrel.be, id smtpdiRC889; Thu Dec 3 03:54:52 1998 Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 03:54:49 +0100 (CET) From: "Michael C. Vergallen" X-Sender: mvergall@ns.double-barrel.be To: Tom cc: Rich Winkel , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: accessing quiescent fbsd machine via network for maintenance In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What I do here is mount the servers / /usr /var and so on directories to /mnt on the build machine and then do a make installworld DESTDIR=/mnt and all gets installed in multiuser mode then I build a kernel for the servers and do a make install for the kernel with the DESTDIR option set. then I unmount the servers filesystems from the buildmachine and do a login to the servers to issue the reboot command. I find this reduces the machines downtime to about 2-3 minutes. Most users don't notice this or can put up with it. Michael --- Michael C. Vergallen A.k.A. Mad Mike, Sportstraat 28 http://www.double-barrel.be/mvergall/ B 9000 Gent ftp://ftp.double-barrel.be/pub/linux/ Belgium tel : 32-9-2227764 Fax : 32-9-2224976 On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Tom wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Rich Winkel wrote: > > > I'm running FBSD 2.2.7-stable. > > For various reasons I'd like to be able to upgrade fbsd machines without > > having to be seated in front of them. Specifically, I want to reboot > > into a mode where only a minimal amount of system activity is > > occurring, regular users are excluded, but remote root access and nfs > > Why bother? Just "make installworld" in full multi-user mode. > "install" is quite smart. > > Tom > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message