From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 24 15:50:13 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA08189 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 15:50:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from venus.GAIANET.NET (venus.GAIANET.NET [207.211.200.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA08181 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 15:50:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by venus.GAIANET.NET (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA17917; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 15:49:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 15:49:50 -0800 (PST) From: Vincent Poy To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: John Birrell , Peter Wemm , nsouch@teaser.fr, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVS totally broken on freefall In-Reply-To: <1427.917220014@zippy.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > This is a *VERY* good example of what not to do on a production system. > > People should know better. Grrr. > > You know of a better way of upgrading machines? If so, tell me now > before we do hub. :) > > I don't have full spares for each, so I can't do the old roll-over > from a hot spare trick. If this were a commercial shop I'd have one > or two super-spares in the corner, sure, but project funds are not > quite so abundant. :) What I do as a remote admin for our own machines is just grab the distributions and backup /etc first and then run the install.sh for each binary distribution and then redo the /etc directory and then build a kernel and then reboot. Ofcourse, this is going from 2.2.X-RELEASE to 3.0-RELEASE which shutdown -r now won't work so someone has to physically reboot the machine. Then I do the make world after a cvsup. It may be a pain in the butt but atleast it never failed so far. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message