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Subject: Re: Remote upgrading (was: /etc/make.conf question)
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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.

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brandon s. allbery   [linux][solaris][japh][freebsd]
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electrical and computer engineering                                 
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