From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 7 02:04:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 B20F416A4E1 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 02:04:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nb_root@videotron.ca) Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A51443D70 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 02:04:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nb_root@videotron.ca) Received: from clk01a ([24.202.77.103]) by VL-MO-MR004.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTP id <0J3L005BFV3XTZ40@VL-MO-MR004.ip.videotron.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 06 Aug 2006 22:04:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 22:04:31 -0400 From: Nicolas Blais In-reply-to: <200608062057.58163.freebsd@dfwlp.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <200608062204.43745.nb_root@videotron.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary=nextPart2351848.cEqEPYhmJm; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <200608062057.58163.freebsd@dfwlp.com> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: Jonathan Horne Subject: Re: so for kicks, i just ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 02:04:50 -0000 --nextPart2351848.cEqEPYhmJm Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 06 August 2006 21:57, Jonathan Horne wrote: > i just decided to take a box, and installworld, without going to single > user mode. from what i can see, the update was completely successful. of > course, other then myself (su'd to root), there were no other users logged > in). > > i wonder how many people are brave enough, and do actually installworld > without changing to single user mode? i wonder what is truly at risk from > not going to single mode? > > curious, > jonathan I usually don't go into single-user mode on my desktops as there is no real= =20 need. If I know libc has been bumpted, then there's a reason to go in=20 stand-alone as there might be running processes that might be affected. On a multiple user machine it is highly recommended because 1) You warn the user that a loss of ressource (network connection etc...) i= s=20 imminent due to reboot 2) Any huge processes are stopped and will not be affected by live changing= of=20 libraries and core /bin or /usr/bin and other system bin files. 3) If somethings goes wrong, you won't be affecting other users in mysterio= us=20 ways, you can fix it right away and resume "serving". There's probably more reasons to the logic but thoses are my so far. Nicolas. =2D-=20 =46reeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #11: Sun Jul 30 12:12:59 EDT 2006 =20 root@clk01a:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CLK01A=20 PGP? : http://www.clkroot.net/security/nb_root.asc --nextPart2351848.cEqEPYhmJm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBE1p+74wTBlvcsbJURAj9hAKChp1n4nfkIA140ea2c4A+3LkhzDACgryp8 2yISfM2CHlZNCq7JiuDKZvE= =4c5I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2351848.cEqEPYhmJm--