From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 16 11: 9:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sitebom.odisseiainternet.com.br (vpn1.bsb.terra.com.br [200.177.8.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D9A437B404 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:09:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from siter (srv3-bsb.bsb.terra.com.br [200.177.8.33]) by sitebom.odisseiainternet.com.br (8.12.1/8.12.1) with SMTP id g0GJ9QwE074537; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:09:27 -0200 (BRST) Message-ID: <000a01c19ec1$426e82e0$840010ac@bsb.terra.com.br> From: "Rodrigo A B Freire" To: "Doug Reynolds" , "Kevin Oberman" Cc: "Brian T. Schellenberger" , References: <20020116175313.891BE5D13@ptavv.es.net> Subject: Re: Newbie: 4.4-stable, how to? - And the CVSupIT bug. Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:09:00 -0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Of COURSE it's a test system. Anyways, the 4.5 is shining in this new machine since sunday, and I found some Cheat Sheets that helped more than your comment. Thanks for your time! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Oberman" To: "Doug Reynolds" Cc: "Brian T. Schellenberger" ; ; "Rodrigo A B Freire" Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 3:53 PM Subject: Re: Newbie: 4.4-stable, how to? - And the CVSupIT bug. > > From: "Doug Reynolds" > > Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:28:12 -0500 > > > > On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:02:57 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > >> you can also type "shutdown now" instead of rebooting into single user > > >> mode b4 installing the world- it saves from running fsck, mounting etc > > >> etc etc > > > > > >While you can do a great many things in FreeBSD, this one is NOT a good > > >idea. The point of the reboot is to load the new kernel and make sure > > >it will boot before installing the world. an 'fsck -p' takes about 2 > > >seconds and 'mount -a -t ufs' takes a bit less. > > > > > >Once you have installed world, if the new kernel won't work you system > > >might not run properly with the old kernel and backing out the world > > >install is a major pain. > > > > > >The instructions in UPDATING were written to provide a safe, fairly > > >easy way to update a system. Think carefully of what you are doing > > >before diverging from them. > > > > well, in that case, if it doesn't work, it'll test your backups to see > > if they'll work :) > > It will also check out your adeptness in explaining to your boss why a > server was down for 3 hours while you restored the system (including > panicked investigation of whether there is a way to avoid the need to > restore, the time to load the backup tapes into the DLT's hopper, > and the time to actually restore 3 or 4 levels of dump). > > Of course, if it's just a test system, you might not care. And I'm > sure you always deploy updates on a test system before trying them on > any production system. :-) > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message