From owner-freebsd-stable Sun May 13 10: 1:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 643EB37B43C for ; Sun, 13 May 2001 10:01:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bryce@burnip.net) Received: from [204.244.158.6] (helo=ultimate) by mail2.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 14yzFH-000AHv-00; Sun, 13 May 2001 10:01:27 -0700 Message-ID: <003201c0dbce$b2f069e0$8000000a@ultimate> From: "Bryce" To: "Hugh Blandford" , References: <006c01c0dba7$f21a38c0$0bdea8c0@island.net.au> Subject: Re: Running Stable on remote production server Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 10:03:11 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To save yourself some time, you can also buildworld, and build the kernel on another machine before hand. Then nfs mount /usr/src, and /usr/obj of that machine from the remote machine, and make install. It's also rather nice to have one central server, with a version of the software you know works. Then as you "upgrade" all your servers, you know they're all running the same code. Regards, Bryce --- bryce@burnip.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hugh Blandford" To: Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 5:26 AM Subject: Running Stable on remote production server > Hi All, > > 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. > > I would be very interested in hearing from anyone who is running a 24x7 > server who is tracking stable and how they cope. In my case I haven't seen > one of my servers for over a year. It is in a phone exchange and costs a > fortune to 'visit'. > > Thanks, > > Hugh > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message