From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 3 11:53:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8225137B55A for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:53:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA70766; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 12:53:05 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id MAA04532; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 12:53:02 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008031853.MAA04532@harmony.village.org> To: Chris BeHanna Subject: Re: Re[2]: Upgrading from 4.1-R to 4.1-S Cc: Gabriel Ambuehl , Nader Turki , jim@jmock.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 03 Aug 2000 12:03:54 EDT." References: Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 12:53:01 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Chris BeHanna writes: : If you want to minimize the downtime, do "make buildworld" in : multi-user mode instead, then drop to single-user mode and do "make : installworld" and reboot. This is the "safe" way of doing things. One can often get away with the make installworld in multiuser mode (In fact, I just did it last night). However, it is wisest to reboot after that so that things like sendmail isn't "cross threaded" with one version running for the daemons and another running for outgoing mail. One can often get away with it, but it isn't supported. Basically there are lots of potential problems that are eliminated by doing the installworld in single-user mode. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message