Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 18:18:35 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Stephen Hilton <nospam@hiltonbsd.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running Stable on remote production server Message-ID: <20010513181834.A19888@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <NEBBJFPJOMGCGNBMJMCHGEKECCAA.nospam@hiltonbsd.com>; from nospam@hiltonbsd.com on Sun, May 13, 2001 at 10:57:03AM -0500 References: <20010513145801.A15090@student.uu.se> <NEBBJFPJOMGCGNBMJMCHGEKECCAA.nospam@hiltonbsd.com>
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On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 10:57:03AM -0500, Stephen Hilton wrote: > Subject: Re: Running Stable on remote production server > > How can you accomplish the single user installworld steps on a remote system ? > Especially the mergemaster program that involves interactive routines ? > I would be using SSH to connect to a remote FreeBSD box. If one has a serial console attached to the remote system then going to single-user mode is not a big problem. Single-user mode is not really necessary to do an installworld/mergemaster. What is required is that the machine is "quiet", meaning no other users are logged in and no programs that might interfere with the installation should be running. For a machine to which one has access to the console the easiest way of accomplishing this is going to single-user mode. Otherwise you will have to disable further logins (see shutdown(8) or nologin(5) for info on how to do this) and then manually kill most processes. (Just be careful not to kill your own shell or sshd :-) ) Then you should be able do an installworld/mergemaster. > > > > > I have been reading the instructions for tracking stable and what is > > recommended in the way of procedures. It seems from this that it would be > > extremely hard to follow these recommendations for a remote POP. IE moving > > to single user mode and on the whole messing with the machine for several > > hours at a time. > > > Stephen Hilton > -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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