From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 25 22:34:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (dhcp.looksmart.com.au [202.53.47.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D461C37B422 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:34:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msergeant@snsonline.net) Received: from xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f3Q5YIL83345; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:34:20 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from msergeant@snsonline.net) Message-Id: <200104260534.f3Q5YIL83345@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Mark Sergeant" To: "Charles Burns" , david@banning.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world needs single user mode? X-Mailer: Pronto v2.2.5 On freebsd/mysql Date: 26 Apr 2001 00:34:15 EST Reply-To: "Mark Sergeant" In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I to have done many a make world whilst in multi-user mode. The thing is I also keep a mirror of my production machine where I upgrade it first to ensure that it works ok then do the same on my remote machine. I have never had a problem so far, what I do isn't ideal and if I had many machines & a terminal server I would be much happier but it gets me by and snsonline.net just keeps humming along. Cheers, Mark On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:24:01 -0700, Charles Burns said: :: >When I created my system I think I may have made my root system :: >too small. So I ended up linking a couple of the / directories :: >to /usr. :: > :: >I just now wondering if that will pose a problem for a make world. :: >If I remember correctly, I think you're supposed to go into single user :: >mode? :: > :: > :: >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org :: >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message :: :: :: Despite recommendations against doing so, I did a "make world" on my server :: both in multi-user mode AND remotely. I am really lucky that it all :: succeeded perfectly and will now stop living on the edge, but the point is :: that you can do make worlds in multiuser mode and not destroy the universe. :: :: When I first installed FreeBSD on my home system, I did qutie a few :: experiments to see if I could break it. Not that this has anything to do :: with what you asked, but you may find it interesting. I found: :: :: 1) Don't use every optimization that you can find on the kernel. This really :: pisses it off quite a bit. :: :: 2) You can "make world" doing just about anything. I had one going while :: also having FTP, WWW, and mail users. Somehow FreeBSD didn't get confused :: and it all worked fine. I wouldn't do this on a system of :: any importance though. :: :: 3) The only way that I found in all my travels to kill FreeBSD, short of :: messing with hardware, is by running a Linux app that has statically linked :: libraries on a FreeBSD 4.2 system that has Linux binary compatibility :: enabled. FreeBSD /really/ dislikes statically linked Linux apps. Other than :: that, I can't seem to crash it without cheating. :: :: :: _________________________________________________________________ :: Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com :: :: :: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org :: with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message :: :: -- Mark Sergeant Unix Systems Administrator Fortune follows... It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message