From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 2 20:51:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA27461 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 20:51:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA27455 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 20:51:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0zlQhr-0004tB-00; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 20:49:35 -0800 Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 20:49:31 -0800 (PST) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: "Michael C. Vergallen" 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 On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Michael C. Vergallen wrote: > 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. Why not just mount /usr/src and /usr/obj from the build machine on the clients? Less machines need to be setup as NFS servers. > 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 Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message