Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 12:32:26 -0400 From: Daniel Harris <dh@askdh.com> To: David Wilk <admin@cia-g.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD upgrade maintenance vs. debian (please help) Message-ID: <20020722163226.GA384@dunnevant.worksforfood.com> In-Reply-To: <20020722094844.D9023@cygnus.wks.Gallup.cia-g.com> References: <20020722094844.D9023@cygnus.wks.Gallup.cia-g.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 09:48:44AM -0600, David Wilk wrote: > The recent security probs (libc, libdns, ssh) have given me quick lessons > on FreeBSD updates on a pre-production box. I'm not terribly thrilled > with the amount of downtime necessary to keep a FreeBSD box up to date. > I'm talking about the 'shutdown to single user mode, make installworld, > reboot to new GENERIC, test, reboot to CUSTOM and yer back in production'. Single-user mode is rarely actually needed for updates within a -STABLE or -RELEASE branch. I usually do make buildworld && make buildkernel KERNCONF=CUSTOM and make installworld && make installkernel && mergemaster After that, one reboot. It's a rare (I've never seen one) security update that will have problems with multiuser. -- Daniel Harris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9PDOZbGPaBITQ1+cRAhCtAJoDrqlaDE+6A0FhPMa9306jTZnNawCfT7Ka TOvmyW3ABQvufPQ+9AKKeog= =8EvO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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