From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 18 18:09:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 BC6E816A526 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:09:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@bsdserver.com.br) Received: from nitrobsd.bsdserver.com.br (dns.bsdserver.com.br [200.215.210.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8963343D62 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:09:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@bsdserver.com.br) Received: from bsdserver.com.br (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nitrobsd.bsdserver.com.br (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8II93GZ023163 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:09:03 -0300 (BRT) (envelope-from freebsd@bsdserver.com.br) From: "Rafael Aquino" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:09:03 -0300 Message-Id: <20060918180849.M28571@bsdserver.com.br> References: <450C46A8.3080908@verysmall.org> <37857215.20060917223205@rulez.sk> X-Mailer: OpenWebMail 2.52 20060502 X-OriginatingIP: 200.96.72.178 (bsdserver) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:09:50 -0000 Hi there... Just to contribute, I also ALWAYS upgrade my systems without single user mode, for "remote" reasons... ;-) Same instructions: shut down all services, except inetd/ssh, installworld, mergemaster and reboot... I even posted in this list, months ago, a step-by-step to remotely upgrade from 4.x to 6.x. I agree that this is a very risky task, but before the first production server, I tried more than 40 times (not kidding) in my test lab. []īs -- Rafael Mentz Aquino BSDServer Ltda. 51 - 9847 8825 ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Daniel Gerzo To: "pobox@verysmall.org" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:32:05 +0200 Subject: Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server > Hello pobox, > > Saturday, September 16, 2006, 8:47:04 PM, you wrote: > > > Hello, > > > could somebody help me to understand the best way to enter into a single > > user mode on a remote server. > > > I need it for the moment, during rebuilding world, when I have to reboot > > into single user mode before 'mergemaster -p'. > > I don't want to persuade you to something that is not officially > supported, but I have never booted into single user mode while > upgrading my FreeBSD boxes and I have never experienced any problems > because of this. Just try to skip the reboot step and go ahead. It > works(tm) for me this way. > > If you are paranoid, try to stop all running services except the ssh > deamon. > > -- > Best regards, > Daniel mailto:danger@FreeBSD.org > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ------- End of Original Message -------