From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 21 08:37:30 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD0F71065670 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:37:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEA708FC17 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:37:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from sarevok.dnr.servegame.org (mailhub.lan.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.11]) by mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94CC47E837; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:37:29 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel Flynn To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:37:27 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.2 (FreeBSD/8.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.2.2; i386; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200904211037.28203.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> Cc: Tom Worster Subject: Re: portmaster -a on a live server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:37:31 -0000 On Tuesday 21 April 2009 01:38:26 Tom Worster wrote: > portmaster -a -x mysql-server > portmaster mysql-server > reboot No no no. /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start. Reboot is for kernel upgrades. And never use reboot unless in single user mode, cause reboot is really fast reboot: it doesn't stop services nicely. Use shutdown -r now. -- Mel