From owner-freebsd-security Wed Aug 1 16: 6:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from tao.org.uk (genesis.tao.org.uk [212.135.162.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30C5737B403 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 16:06:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@tao.org.uk) Received: by tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id CB2FB51C; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 00:06:23 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 00:06:18 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Brian Nelson Cc: Nuno Teixeira , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RELEASE 4.3 -> RELENG_4_3: SUCCESSFULLY but ... Message-ID: <20010802000616.E1443@tao.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Josef Karthauser , Brian Nelson , Nuno Teixeira , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010801235514.D1443@tao.org.uk> <3B688A87.90407@paypal.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="r7U+bLA8boMOj+mD" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B688A87.90407@paypal.com>; from bnelson@paypal.com on Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 04:02:31PM -0700 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 --r7U+bLA8boMOj+mD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 04:02:31PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > Josef Karthauser wrote: >=20 > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 10:01:41PM +0100, Nuno Teixeira wrote: > >=20 > > > My question is: what is the real danger of doing `installworld` in > > > multiuser mode? I have doing a lot of tests in other machines tracki= ng > > > STABLE and I have no problems so far. > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > Joe > >=20 >=20 > I usually stop all non-system-essential running processes (mail servers,= =20 > web servers, inetd, etc) and make it so the system isn't running more=20 > then sshd and init when I do the installworld/kernel install process.=20 > But that's just me. I don't think i have ever ran into a problem thus=20 > far, running since 2.2.8 - 4.3-STABLE >=20 Me neither, from 2.1.5 though to 4.1. Joe --r7U+bLA8boMOj+mD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjtoi2cACgkQXVIcjOaxUBZgCQCgzJTrz7m+XMMeUyipEjvGRjpq 7qgAoOmS7M+cHUeGpipXmn9gdEkWWPdq =M8+u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --r7U+bLA8boMOj+mD-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message