From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 21 20:38:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-1.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9084537B423 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 20:38:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by smtp-1.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D23DF5EB2; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 22:37:59 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 22:37:59 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt X-Sender: dscheidt@shell-1.enteract.com To: Charles Burns Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote "make world" safe? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Charles Burns wrote: :Is it generally safe to do a remote "make world" and reboot? I know that the :handbook recommends switching to single user mode, but that is pretty tough :to do when the server is across the country. :-) Of course, it's a really long drive to go fix things when they blow up, too. It's not a good idea to do this. It's possible, but it's not a good idea. Much better to get someone onsite to do it. If there's no one on site, why don't you have a serial console? -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message