Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 20:50:47 -0600 From: Pat Maddox <pergesu@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: make installworld (remotely) Message-ID: <810a540e0505031950920bc63@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGOEAFHEAA.bob@a1poweruser.com> References: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAraBMZwunwUCj0cCUC/kKUsKAAAAQAAAAqIHWCLnTv0OrBh8ZodNjrAEAAAAA@bitifarm.ee> <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGOEAFHEAA.bob@a1poweruser.com>
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Huh? How about the many many production machines located at remote datacenters? How do people upgrade those? I've personally done hundreds of remote upgrades without ever rendering a machine unrecoverable. In fact, the only problems I've run into are with a noexec /tmp, but that's easily fixable when doing an upgrade. On 5/3/05, bob@a1poweruser.com <bob@a1poweruser.com> wrote: > Doing a remote buildworld is just too dangerous for an production > box and expensive in backups because you have all the source files > to deal with. The more popular method of updating a remote system is > to have an local development box that has same components and do a > fresh install to a empty ata hard drive and them ship new HD to > remote site and swap for old one. If needed, you recover by swapping > old one back in. Or another popular way is after populating new HD, > build an bootable system on a cdrom then ship cdrom to remote site > and swap that. >=20 >=20 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Lauri > Anteploon / ctrl-L > Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 5:30 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: make installworld (remotely) >=20 > Hi. > Im running FreeBSD 5.3-Release #0 and would like to do buildworld > and > buildkernel. > The problem is that the machine is a remote one. > Handbook states that to run "mergemaster" and "make installworld" I > should > boot into single user mode. > That would mean that I can't access the machine remotely anymore am > I > correct? >=20 > Would it be okey to run make installworld when running in multiuser > mode and > being the only person whos logged on and maby shutting down most of > the > network services (leaving my sshd running though) ? >=20 > Lauri Anteploon > HYPERLINK "mailto:lauri@bitifarm.ee"lauri@bitifarm.ee > 5056999 >=20 > HYPERLINK "http://www.bitifarm.ee/" >=20 > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.2 - Release Date: > 2.05.2005 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >
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