From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 19 18:34:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from level3.dynacom.net (level3.dynacom.net [206.107.213.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 66D4937B401 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 18:33:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 13082 invoked by uid 0); 20 Jan 2001 02:33:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO urx.com) (206.159.132.160) by mail.urx.com with SMTP; 20 Jan 2001 02:33:51 -0000 Message-ID: <3A68F90F.819AA91D@urx.com> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 18:33:51 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Desjardins Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: single user mode References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Desjardins wrote: > > Hello, > > I checked the man pages and archives but could not find the answer I was > looking for. I have jsut recently picked up some work admin'ing some > remote freebsd boxes which are running 4.0-release. I want to bring these > up to -STABLE, but they are located 3000 miles away, so re-booting into > single user mode is hardly an option since the people I am working with > know nothing about bsd. The question I have is how can I take these > machines from multiuser to single user mode via a shutdown without > dropping the network? is there a way to drop to single user mode from > multi without re-booting? I assume from there I can safely installworld > and finish up with a kernel build and reboot from there. If thats not > possible, what need I be concerned about doing an installworld in > multi-user? It depends on what your are running. I don't have to boot to single user to follow 4-stable. You might need to shut something like sendmail down but I don't use it and don't have to. > > As a side question, how would you go from single-user back to multi > without re-booting (if possible) and how would the security level play in > the equation? (just curious) If you aren't running -1, it plays a big deal. Kent > > Regards, > > Bill Desjardins > > -- > Bill Desjardins - bill@carracing.com - (USA) 305.205.8644 > Unix/Network Consulting - perl/mod_perl/SQL development > http://www.CarRacing.com - Powered by FreeBSD/mod_perl > http://www.FreeBSD.org - The Best OS Money can't buy > f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng... > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message