From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Mar 23 14:30:48 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7AA337B401 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 14:30:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.nortenet.pt (mar.nortenet.pt [212.13.32.243]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F9BB43FA3 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 14:30:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from guilherme@nortenet.pt) Received: from nortenet.pt (v1-pppS41.nortenet.pt [212.13.32.41]) by mail.nortenet.pt (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h2NLSja04008 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 22:28:45 +0100 Message-ID: <3E7E3586.9000506@nortenet.pt> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 22:30:30 +0000 From: "Guilherme J. R. Oliveira" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030308 X-Accept-Language: pt, pt-br, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Production Machine, Custom Kernel, Updating to P9 References: <20030322125653.V11496@seven.alameda.net> <20030323080106.3D7195499@bert.int.kts.org> <20030323004521.W11496@seven.alameda.net> <3E7DD572.1020700@nortenet.pt> <20030323231358.5e29af1e.Alexander@Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20030323231358.5e29af1e.Alexander@Leidinger.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 15:40:34 +0000 > "Guilherme J. R. Oliveira" wrote: > > >>>I usual do not bring it down, but I usual stop services before doing it. >>>Stopping services, installworld, mergemaster and reboot is usual only >>>5 minutes. >>> >> >>What could happen if I don't stop the services: the file won't be >>updated because it's open or what ? > > > No, it will get updated. We don't have advisory locks, we have > cooperative locks. The only thing which can happen is: the service > segfaults, dies, hangs, aborts, stops, produces garbage or continues to > operate as usual. Umm, I'm asking this because I'll need do this remotely. So it's "secure" installworld remotely and then remotely reboot the machine ? This way we load the fresh binaries daemons in memory. I was confused thinking the binaries (in disc) weren't updated if we had the daemons running. This way it works too... -- mailto:guilherme@nortenet.pt || http://guilherme.host-valley.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message