From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 19 04:24:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EC5216A4CE for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 04:24:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD80443D3F for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 04:24:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from subhro.kar@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id v18so123415rnb for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:24:28 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=QHFrhSovA7O7Hnz3wxUWSgCFKpCjaXDF09UT6NkG9P271hQexmy4HiKWuv6EVyiwzaWytd7xpBdNVVxO3bFm6pCeE31X2NI8+sdO8gR1L5XSUSxjbBATslXTl1a/h3de33ixuCevWrxBqCrwwdxKQ4/K2sWldEk69Ckk/fOrHA4 Received: by 10.38.98.26 with SMTP id v26mr855214rnb; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:24:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.206.40 with HTTP; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:24:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:54:28 +0530 From: Subhro To: Vonleigh Simmons In-Reply-To: <37C24532-2175-11D9-8070-000A2791B6EC@illusionart.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20041018163856.5DF5016A4CE@hub.freebsd.org> <37C24532-2175-11D9-8070-000A2791B6EC@illusionart.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3-STABLE ???? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Subhro List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 04:24:29 -0000 On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:18:51 -0700, Vonleigh Simmons wrote: > > Sorry to hijack the thread. My box is running 5.2, and I'd like to > upgrade it to 5.2.1. Problem is that the server is in a colo so I only > have SSH access to it; because of this I can't drop into single user > mode. You dont need to. Although recommended to get to the single user mode, it is not a compulsion. You can very well go through the installworld in multiuser mode. But try to lock out the box first before attempting it and try to kill all the processes of other users. And BTW cvsup first. Regards S. -- Subhro Sankha Kar School of Information Technology Block AQ-13/1 Sector V ZIP 700091 India