From owner-freebsd-security Wed Aug 1 16: 2:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from xchange.xpa1.x.com (egress.pa1.paypal.com [64.41.130.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7831837B403 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 16:02:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bnelson@paypal.com) Received: from paypal.com (10.1.2.5 [10.1.2.5]) by xchange.xpa1.x.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id P6S49LY6; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 16:02:39 -0700 Message-ID: <3B688A87.90407@paypal.com> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 16:02:31 -0700 From: Brian Nelson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010702 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josef Karthauser Cc: Nuno Teixeira , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RELEASE 4.3 -> RELENG_4_3: SUCCESSFULLY but ... References: <20010801235514.D1443@tao.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 10:01:41PM +0100, Nuno Teixeira wrote: > > > My question is: what is the real danger of doing `installworld` in > > multiuser mode? I have doing a lot of tests in other machines tracking > > STABLE and I have no problems so far. > > I've _always_ done installworld in multiuser on many servers. That > doesn't mean that it's the safest way, but it was safe enough for me. > > Joe > I usually stop all non-system-essential running processes (mail servers, web servers, inetd, etc) and make it so the system isn't running more then sshd and init when I do the installworld/kernel install process. But that's just me. I don't think i have ever ran into a problem thus far, running since 2.2.8 - 4.3-STABLE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message