From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 14 14:25: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.webmonster.de (datasink.webmonster.de [194.162.162.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF4B837B423 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 14:24:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karsten@rohrbach.de) Received: (qmail 63951 invoked by uid 1000); 14 May 2001 21:25:20 -0000 Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 23:25:20 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" To: Juha Saarinen Cc: Stephen Hilton , "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Running Stable on remote production server Message-ID: <20010514232520.J53801@mail.webmonster.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from juha@saarinen.org on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:12:07AM +1200 X-Arbitrary-Number-Of-The-Day: 42 X-URL: http://www.webmonster.de/ X-Disclaimer: My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my employer Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Juha Saarinen(juha@saarinen.org)@2001.05.14 08:12:07 +0000: > On Sun, 13 May 2001, Stephen Hilton wrote: > > > How can you accomplish the single user installworld steps on a remote system ? > > Especially the mergemaster program that involves interactive routines ? > > I would be using SSH to connect to a remote FreeBSD box. > > Why do you have to run mergemaster in single-user mode? i think you don't explicitly have to but you should because it touches delicate files that could at least irritate running and active subsystems. i could imagine some daemons to badly barf about changing uids in the password db while they are running ;-) /k -- > knowledge is power. power corrupts. study hard, be evil KR433/KR11-RIPE -- http://www.webmonster.de -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de [Key] [KeyID---] [Created-] [Fingerprint-------------------------------------] GnuPG 0x2964BF46 2001-03-15 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 BF46 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message