Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:02:33 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Paul English <penglish@hydro.washington.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing XFree86 from port - will disrupt clients? Message-ID: <20020718200233.GB2488@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20020718095838.G20812-100000@dynamic.hydro.washington.edu> References: <20020718095838.G20812-100000@dynamic.hydro.washington.edu>
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On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 10:03:12AM -0700, Paul English wrote: > I've had different experiences installing upgrades from ports > while users are using the software. I'm particularly concerned with > XFree86. /usr/X11R6 is being served from a central NFS server and all of > the clients are using X. Will they be disrupted if I do a "make install" > to upgrade XFree86 4.1.0 to 4.2.0? The config files should be the same, > and in any case shouldn't be put in place by the install. But all of the > libraries are going to change out from under a running system. It's definitely better to perform upgrades while the system is quiescent. Especially when those updates include new shared libraries --- you do want all your users to quit all their X applications which have those shared libraries mapped into their images, or the space on the filesystem used by the shlibs won't be released. Probably easiest is to wait for a quiet time, get all your users to log out and then un-export the shared filesystem and do the install. For ultimate sanity preservation, there's always the option of dropping the machine to single user mode to do the install. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Tel: +44 1628 476614 Marlow Fax: +44 0870 0522645 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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