From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 30 13:25: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3C8137B400 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:24:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FF0F43E65 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:24:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7UKOqwu014000; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:24:52 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g7UKOq9M013999; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:24:52 -0700 Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:24:52 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Kent Stewart Cc: Brooks Davis , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Updating world with least downtime Message-ID: <20020830132451.A10958@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <00af01c25054$3024aca0$04fea8c0@motorcity.on.ca> <20020830113823.A31843@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20020830184305.GC11237@leviathan.inethouston.net> <20020830114911.A32627@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <3D6FCBBF.5010508@owt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3D6FCBBF.5010508@owt.com>; from kstewart@owt.com on Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 12:47:11PM -0700 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 12:47:11PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: >=20 > I never had networking in single user mode and always thought I didn't=20 > have to worry about a firewall. The whole sequence of installworld and=20 > mergemaster typically requires an uptime of less than 4 minutes on my=20 > fast computers. You don't really need one in single user mode. I was commenting on the fact if you use the minimal downtime approach of installing the kernel and rebooting to multiuser before doing the installwork/mergemaster and your system depended on a firewall config you could be SOL. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9b9STXY6L6fI4GtQRAu+uAJ4sKojgDF8fokuRdOpMH2hyxRjt8ACfTVbv bd+wlJH6DD8Z1/Od3ZUc6H8= =QBuL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message