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Date:      Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:36:08 +0300
From:      Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>
To:        Paulo Fragoso <paulo@nlink.com.br>
Cc:        Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>, Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk>, Michiel Boland <boland@alexander.diva.nl>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.6-RELEASE -> 4.5-RELENG
Message-ID:  <20020711093608.GD45527@nevermind.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20020710154619.M93085-100000@mirage.nlink.com.br>
References:  <20020710175614.7F3535D03@ptavv.es.net> <20020710154619.M93085-100000@mirage.nlink.com.br>

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Hello, Paulo Fragoso!

On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 03:59:55PM -0300, you wrote:

> > While there are a few niggles, the proper sequence  is:
> > mergemaster -p (This is NEW!)
> > make buildworld
> > make kernel KERNCONF=your_kernel_conf_name
> > REBOOT into single-user mode! (This does not mean drop to single user.)
> > fsck -p
> > mount -a -t ufs
> > cd /usr/src
> > make installworld
> > mergemaster -i (-a is a bit inadequate unless you go back and clean up
> >                 the mess it often leaves before going to multi-user
> >                 mode.)
> > exit (to multi-user mode)
> We have a doubt, if we have kern.securelevel=-1 and we are doing a
> security upgrade (for example: that server is using 4.6-RELEASE and its
> tag is tag=RELENG_4_6), are there any reason to switch to single-user
> mode?
> 
> We are upgrading remotely some servers without switch to sigle-user, but
> in all cases are security upgrade only and all works fine.
We are using 1 server for serial console server, and upgrade our systems
from single mode over serial console remotely.

-- 
NEVE-RIPE
Ukrainian FreeBSD User Group
http://uafug.org.ua/

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