From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 4 01:19:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA25756 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 01:19:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA25745 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 01:19:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA27112; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 01:19:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 01:19:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Elliot Finley cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: doing make installworld in multiuser In-Reply-To: <359aaf48.16667664@mail.afnetinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Elliot Finley wrote: > Is it going to mess anything up to do a make buildworld, and make > installworld while in multiuser mode with users on the system? I'll > be doing it nice-ly of course. Ooof... this could cause some interesting race conditions during the update. I drop my workstation to single user to do the installworld and subsequent kernel build; this way I don't break my running programs if the libraries move or blow up again. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message