Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 23:25:20 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> To: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org> Cc: Stephen Hilton <nospam@hiltonbsd.com>, "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Running Stable on remote production server Message-ID: <20010514232520.J53801@mail.webmonster.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105140811130.7543-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org>; from juha@saarinen.org on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:12:07AM %2B1200 References: <NEBBJFPJOMGCGNBMJMCHGEKECCAA.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105140811130.7543-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org>
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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
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