From owner-freebsd-security Wed Jul 25 18: 4:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from fep01-svc.swip.net (fep01.swip.net [130.244.199.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18EA337B406 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 18:04:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tubbs@home.se) Received: from tubbs.home.se ([213.100.32.142]) by fep01-svc.swip.net with ESMTP id <20010726010409.MLEL20404.fep01-svc.swip.net@tubbs.home.se>; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 03:04:09 +0200 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20010726030631.04de4ec0@students.su.se> X-Sender: m74mh81f@students.su.se X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 03:09:25 -0700 To: Nuno Teixeira , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG From: Markus =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hallstr=F6m?= Subject: Re: Updating security fixes without single user mode? In-Reply-To: <20010726015730.F5227@gateway.bogus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 01:57 2001-07-26 +0100, Nuno Teixeira wrote: >Hello to all, > >At my workstation I'm tracking STABLE with no problems. > >At my server I just want to update the system with security fixes, etc. > >My question is: > >Tracking RELEASE_4_3 (for a RELEASE 4.3 system) is a good option, but >after makeworld and makekernel, I need to >go into single user mode and make installworld and mergemaster. > >The problem is that my server is at US and I live in Portugal! So, it's >impossible to run >the system in single user mode. > >What is the best way of maintain the system updated without single user mode? > >Patches? Packages? > >Thanks in advance, You can always be a daredevil and make installworld and run mergemaster in multiusermode, It usually works for me ;-) /TUBBS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message