Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 11:37:49 +0200 (CEST) From: "Per Engelbrecht" <per@xterm.dk> To: <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: src update without console access Message-ID: <54557.62.242.151.142.1095068269.squirrel@mailbox.wingercom.dk>
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Hi All The company where I'm working, are selling FreeBSD (5.2.1) installations in a dedicated serverhosting environment. When updating 'src' customers are adviced to use "standard" procedure i.e. cvsup. The problem is that customers don't have console access while in single-user mode ! (can't run installworld, mergemaster) I've tested an upgrade from a running system (killing sendmail first, no attached users) with poor result .. 'mergemaster -p' and 'mergemaster' only found a diff in /etc/motd and 'uname -a' didn't show any system changes after a reboot. In obsd I'm used to run a "clean" cvs, building and installing from a running system. I can't expect customers to go through that procedure so I was hoping that any you guys could help me with a solution for the customers? I've bee searching the archives and found a lot of stuff on keeping fbsd serverfarms up to date with PXE - very nice, but not an option. (we have a large PXE setup running allready for new installations) respectfully /per per@xterm.dk
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