From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 12 9:57:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6E5537B420 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:56:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2CHuUC93543; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:56:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:56:29 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: MikeM Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote upgrading (was: /etc/make.conf question) Message-ID: <20020312125629.A93500@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20020312074349.A91204@blackhelicopters.org> <20020312155618.GA9463@raggedclown.net> <20020312114158.A92910@blackhelicopters.org> <200203121201050707.044E239E@luna.affordablehost.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200203121201050707.044E239E@luna.affordablehost.com>; from MyRaQ@mgm51.com on Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:01:05PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lots of people do this, as suggested by others in this thread. As a -doc person, with an @freebsd.org mail address, I have to be careful in what I say. I don't want anyone to get the idea that these solutions are FreeBSD's Official Supported Solutions. Having said that: Yep, works just fine. Kill all processes that might interfere, and go for it! On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:01:05PM -0500, MikeM wrote: > On 3/12/02 at 11:41 AM Michael Lucas wrote: > > |[snip] > |Remember, the correct dance for an upgrade these days includes the > |following: > | > |make buildworld > |make buildkernel > |make installkernel > | > |make installworld > |mergemaster > | > |[snip] > ============= > > 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 assure that I am the only person logged in, I just cannot get into single-user mode. > > Will the 'make installworld' and 'mergemaster' steps not work properly in my scenario? > > Thanks. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message