From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 15 22:25:10 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74DAF16A41F for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:25:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonathan@kc8onw.net) Received: from smtp1.fuse.net (mail-out1.fuse.net [216.68.8.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCDDB43D45 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:25:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonathan@kc8onw.net) Received: from gx6.fuse.net ([66.42.156.185]) by smtp1.fuse.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.04 201-2131-118-104-20050224) with ESMTP id <20050915222508.UVQF26845.smtp1.fuse.net@gx6.fuse.net> for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:25:08 -0400 Received: from server.kc8onw.net ([66.42.156.185]) by gx6.fuse.net (InterMail vG.1.02.00.02 201-2136-104-102-20041210) with ESMTP id <20050915222508.FWRY3523.gx6.fuse.net@server.kc8onw.net>; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:25:08 -0400 Received: from kc8onw.net (localhost.kc8onw.net [127.0.0.1]) by server.kc8onw.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 018E6A16FC; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:25:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 144.104.30.6 (proxying for 10.30.61.70) (SquirrelMail authenticated user jonathan) by kc8onw.net with HTTP; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:25:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <34845.144.104.30.6.1126823105.squirrel@kc8onw.net> In-Reply-To: <4329F111.2090505@incubus.de> References: <07276B16-05B6-4765-B9AA-E8BBB2B634F2@uhort.no> <4329F111.2090505@incubus.de> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:25:05 -0400 (EDT) From: jonathan@kc8onw.net To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8ystein_Holmen?= User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rebuilding "world" without physical access X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:25:10 -0000 > Øystein Holmen wrote: > >> users. Could I just stop apache and follow the canonical way, except I >> don't go into single user mode? > > Usually works. I've never rebooted into single-user during the upgrade > procedure and haven't encountered any problems in 10 years of doing it > that way. Also, often it isn't possible, for example, when using a > hosted server w/o remote console access. > > mkb. I've done it myself several times as well but I was right next to it if something went wrong. As long as you can deal with it being down for however long it would take to get to it then I would say go for it. Just be sure to follow all the usual warnings, back everything up etc. As someone else mentioned you don't even have to stop any services on the box although depending on how far you are upgrading you may want to recompile ports after the upgrade. HTH, Jonathan