Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 12:04:58 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: dev@trifecta.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDi --> FreeBSD Message-ID: <199607301704.MAA22871@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199607301653.JAA28740@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Jul 30, 96 09:53:40 am
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> > Is it safe to do a make world on a running system safely? > > Not really, as some things will be in a transitory state for long periods > of time some programs may core dump. This is very true. While it may appear to work, and in many cases works just fine, there are also risks associated with doing this. > > Also, do you need to backup configuration files or such, or is your > > system safe as is. Any advice would be appreciated. > > You should _ALWAYS_ have backups of EVERYTHING, not just your configuration > files. Disk drives do fail, and not having a backup of them is asking for > a long and painful night or two of reconstruction. So... what are you saying. :-) :-) :-) ... JG
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