From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Mar  2 16:20:37 2011
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3F031065689
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Wed,  2 Mar 2011 16:20:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd)
Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com
	[209.85.214.54])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24B748FC15
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Wed,  2 Mar 2011 16:20:36 +0000 (UTC)
Received: by bwz12 with SMTP id 12so318915bwz.13
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:20:36 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.204.62.132 with SMTP id x4mr219767bkh.30.1299082835868;
	Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:20:35 -0800 (PST)
Received: from dfleuriot.technique-admin.paris.hi-media-techno.com
	([83.167.62.196])
	by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d17sm77965bkd.13.2011.03.02.08.20.34
	(version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:20:35 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <4D6E6E51.8030708@my.gd>
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:20:33 +0100
From: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US;
	rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
References: <AANLkTin39JjTsts2WwgDUV2QfZL745D0P3DqTkko8TFq@mail.gmail.com>	<4D6E6B16.7010508@my.gd>
	<AANLkTin7sHXsLwBBUmHinDaB3FLOH25_CDy4v82gKFjw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin7sHXsLwBBUmHinDaB3FLOH25_CDy4v82gKFjw@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: Re: Finish upgrading remote server without physically being there?
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:20:37 -0000

On 3/2/11 5:15 PM, Ed Flecko wrote:
> Thanks Damien.
> 
> :-)
> 
> Two questions -
> 
> 1.) If rebooting into single user mode isn't obviously a
> requirement...I wonder why so many tutorials, books, etc. tell you to
> do this?
> 

Rebooting single user ensures that most daemons aren't launched, as well
as stuff related to networking and so on.

It's safer but not mandatory per se.

I've done 7.4-PRE to 8.0-REL upgrades just fine without the single user
step, AND the machine came back alive ;)


> 2.) How do I rebuild the ports?
> 

Either you rebuild them by hand, one after another...

Or you install a port that will do this for you, like
/usr/ports/ports-mgt/portmanager/

portmanager -u -l

et voila