Date: 12 Mar 2002 12:34:13 -0500 From: "Brandon S. Allbery" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote upgrading (was: /etc/make.conf question) Message-ID: <1015954454.14045.3.camel@hilfy.ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200203121201050707.044E239E@luna.affordablehost.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.32.0203121126520.1546-100000@nippur.irb.hr> <20020312074349.A91204@blackhelicopters.org> <20020312155618.GA9463@raggedclown.net> <20020312114158.A92910@blackhelicopters.org> <200203121201050707.044E239E@luna.affordablehost.com>
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On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 12:01, MikeM wrote: > I manage a remote FreeBSD server, a single-user reboot is not at all > practical. So my question is: how important, and for what reason, is > the urging to go into single-user mode? On my remote server, I can If the old world and new kernel are sufficiently different from each other, rebooting to multiuser could result in many servers dumping core on startup, leaving your remote system catatonic until someone can get to the console. If the system does manage to start up, the installworld and mergemaster "should" work. -- brandon s. allbery [linux][solaris][japh][freebsd] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [openafs][heimdal][too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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