From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 4 10: 3:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clink.schulte.org (clink.schulte.org [209.134.156.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9BB637B41A for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 10:03:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from schulte-laptop.nospam.schulte.org (nb-65.netbriefings.com [209.134.134.65]) by clink.schulte.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1CC02440D; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 12:03:36 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020104115958.035740d8@pop3s.schulte.org> X-Sender: (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 12:03:05 -0600 To: Per olof Ljungmark , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Christopher Schulte Subject: Re: Updating remote machine In-Reply-To: <200201041758.g04HwbS49701@c193-150-231-214.cm-upc.chello.s e> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 At 06:58 PM 1/4/2002 +0100, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: >Hi all, > >We have a remote FBSD4.3 machina that I would like to upgrade to 4.4_STABLE. >While the handbook says you need single user mode to install world I was >wondering if it is still possible to shut down most processes (except sshd) >and do it in normal mode? Possible? Yes. I've done it many times with machines located far from my physical reach. Kill as many processes as possible, even the listening sshd.... Have a backup plan in case it fails. I think I posted my experiences with this a while back to -STABLE or -QUESTIONS... Check the archives. >Thanks, -c To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message