From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 22 7:52:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00BE337B422 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 07:52:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from mark9.vladsempire.net (hutch-808.hutchtel.net [206.10.71.136]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id JAA01440; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 09:52:09 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Josh Paetzel To: David Scheidt , Charles Burns Subject: Re: Remote "make world" safe? Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 09:52:54 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01042209525400.00274@mark9.vladsempire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 21 April 2001 22:37, David Scheidt wrote: > On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Charles Burns wrote: > :Is it generally safe to do a remote "make world" and reboot? I know that > : the handbook recommends switching to single user mode, but that is pretty > : tough to do when the server is across the country. :-) > > Of course, it's a really long drive to go fix things when they blow up, > too. It's not a good idea to do this. It's possible, but it's not a good > idea. Much better to get someone onsite to do it. If there's no one on > site, why don't you have a serial console? Pcweasel cards are your very good friends. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message