From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 11 2:37:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EE9137B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 02:37:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mile.nevermind.kiev.ua (office.netstyle.com.ua [213.186.199.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3A4043E3B for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 02:37:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from never@mile.nevermind.kiev.ua) Received: from mile.nevermind.kiev.ua (never@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mile.nevermind.kiev.ua (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6B9aM25088168; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:36:36 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from never@mile.nevermind.kiev.ua) Received: (from never@localhost) by mile.nevermind.kiev.ua (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g6B9a8Fd088167; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:36:08 +0300 (EEST) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:36:08 +0300 From: Alexandr Kovalenko To: Paulo Fragoso Cc: Kevin Oberman , Gavin Atkinson , Michiel Boland , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.6-RELEASE -> 4.5-RELENG Message-ID: <20020711093608.GD45527@nevermind.kiev.ua> References: <20020710175614.7F3535D03@ptavv.es.net> <20020710154619.M93085-100000@mirage.nlink.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020710154619.M93085-100000@mirage.nlink.com.br> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message