From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 18:52:35 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43604106564A for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:52:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from mail.potentialtech.com (internet.potentialtech.com [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 126068FC1A for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:52:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from vanquish.ws.pitbpa0.priv.collaborativefusion.com (pr40.pitbpa0.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.202]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2E51CEBC0A; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:52:34 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:52:33 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: Nerius Landys Message-Id: <20090129135233.d3bc04d3.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <560f92640901291044t6f6486bfnca8fda41e3d94d1c@mail.gmail.com> References: <560f92640901281416m784f85c4h9014c5e834980893@mail.gmail.com> <20090128175705.3677bafb.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <560f92640901281511m55e3adc8l75d2b28b381920c8@mail.gmail.com> <20090129073647.c34e36dc.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <560f92640901291044t6f6486bfnca8fda41e3d94d1c@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: security holes 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: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:52:35 -0000 In response to Nerius Landys : > When and if I upgrade, I will be doing it by compiling the system from > source (buildworld or what it's called) according to: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html > For the installworld and mergemaster steps, it's strongly recommended > to drop into single user mode. However, since my server is in a data > center, it's a bit of trouble to do so (requires the "boss" there to > hook up some sort of keyboard-input over a web browser application). > I'm wondering if for the upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1 it would be OK to NOT > drop into single user mode during these steps. You've got to make that call for yourself, but it's the reason serial console and 1000 different brands of "lights out management" addon cards exist. Personally, I haven't done the "drop to single user mode" thing in a long time and I've never had problems. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/