From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 18 17:54:15 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8467106564A for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:54:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 637CB8FC1E for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:54:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.51]) by qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id uf4q1d01M16LCl052huFwc; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:54:15 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([98.248.46.159]) by omta06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id uhuE1d00K3S48mS3ShuFZ7; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:54:15 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2C7299B436; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:54:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:54:13 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Jorge Biquez Message-ID: <20100318175413.GA52995@icarus.home.lan> References: <2e027be01003170732y4ae4312fof9bf64e3574c964a@mail.gmail.com> <3351778098-2078121394@intranet.com.mx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3351778098-2078121394@intranet.com.mx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List Subject: Re: 7.2-p7 -> 8-STABLE mergemaster core dump X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:54:15 -0000 On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:27:48AM -0600, Jorge Biquez wrote: > At 01:55 a.m. 18/03/2010, Doug Barton wrote: > >On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Cristiano Deana wrote: > > > >>yes, i knew. > >>but i was updating via ssh, so forget "run in single user". i also > >>know the exact procedure, but i upgrade hundreds of times before today > >>making this procedure and always went fine. > > > >So, it works just fine right up until the time it doesn't work. > >Feel free to deviate from the documented procedures, it's your > >system. Just don't be surprised if things break. > > > > > >Doug > >_______________________________________________ > > > Hello all. > With all respect Doug, users that have remote machines and do not > have access to it to boot single user like the manual says.. what > can we do? I understand that step is to be sure that no user will > modify something while we are doing those process. In my case I do > that step after midnight when our users are not in the server. > > Can others with remote systems comment about what they do in this step? Serial console. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |