From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Mar 23 0:45:23 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CB8D37B401 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 00:45:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from seven.Alameda.net (seven.Alameda.net [64.81.63.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8EB643F3F for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 00:45:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ulf@Alameda.net) Received: by seven.Alameda.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8936A3A203; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 00:45:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 00:45:21 -0800 From: Ulf Zimmermann To: Hellmuth Michaelis Cc: ulf@Alameda.net, Lewis Watson , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Production Machine, Custom Kernel, Updating to P9 Message-ID: <20030323004521.W11496@seven.alameda.net> Reply-To: ulf@Alameda.net References: <20030322125653.V11496@seven.alameda.net> <20030323080106.3D7195499@bert.int.kts.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20030323080106.3D7195499@bert.int.kts.org>; from hm@kts.org on Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 09:01:06AM +0100 Organization: Alameda Networks, Inc. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p2 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 09:01:06AM +0100, Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: > Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > > > Here is in short form what I do in production machines: > > > > cvsup (RELENG_4 or RELENG_4_7 depending what it runs) > > cd /usr/src > > make buildworld > > make buildkernel KERNCONF= > > make installkernel KERNCON= > > make installworld > > mergemaster > > > > I am doing it all the time, even on machines remotely, with no consoles. > > Do you bring down the machine to single user mode for "make installworld" ? > > If not, what is your experience with doing a "make installworld" on a > running system ? > > hellmuth > -- > Hellmuth Michaelis Hamburg, Europe hm\at\kts.org www.kts.org > a duck is like a bicycle because they both have two wheels except the duck (tl) I usual do not bring it down, but I usual stop services before doing it. Stopping services, installworld, mergemaster and reboot is usual only 5 minutes. -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 You can find my resume at: http://seven.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message