From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 7 15:50:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B221416A4DE for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 15:50:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from backyard1454-bsd@yahoo.com) Received: from web83113.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web83113.mail.mud.yahoo.com [216.252.101.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D75E43D45 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 15:50:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from backyard1454-bsd@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 30412 invoked by uid 60001); 7 Aug 2006 15:50:46 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=hm0+x4BF10b8px40nm43UeCcEZeP1G4y0/dfSXpZbIvW79epeBxrL7Q28QmjiqxUEqg12lXsBKscfJFmnGiOF9f35JWTsyJOlqr/XoUiAp98kitJzeLR4SDy0FZ77ADn4VQz7dXY7gGS00K26vyQ1tQc4xMznbIuQBNNJv96t1c= ; Message-ID: <20060807155046.30410.qmail@web83113.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [63.240.228.37] by web83113.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 07 Aug 2006 08:50:46 PDT Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 08:50:46 -0700 (PDT) From: backyard To: RW , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200608071618.22797.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Re: so for kicks, i just ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: backyard1454-bsd@yahoo.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:50:48 -0000 --- RW wrote: > On Monday 07 August 2006 02:57, Jonathan Horne > wrote: > > i just decided to take a box, and installworld, > without going to single > > user mode. from what i can see, the update was > completely successful. of > > course, other then myself (su'd to root), there > were no other users logged > > in). > > > > i wonder how many people are brave enough, and do > actually installworld > > without changing to single user mode? i wonder > what is truly at risk from > > not going to single mode? > > I always do that on point releases. but given the > infrequency of releases it > doesn't seem worth saving any effort there. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I used to do it on every install and only had issue once, which was more and issue with mergemaster and going line by line and not knowing to answer l and r... with the merge option, something another installworld fixed for me... But like yourself I never have anybody but myself logged in. I got some old serial multiplexors with a 10-base2 ethernet connection for a serial console. for when I need to actually worry about real users. Has anybody had SERIOUS problems installingworld with load on the system? It just seems like a potentially bad idea, and have since started going to single user for my updates nowadays. -brian