Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 08:41:18 -0800 (PST) From: "Duane H. Hesser" <dhh@androcles.com> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, nickhead@folino.com, dcs@newsguy.com, Bob Johnson <bob@eng.ufl.edu> Subject: Re: KERNCONF instead of KERNEL? Message-ID: <XFMail.010303084118.dhh@androcles.com> In-Reply-To: <20010302105521.A29174@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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nextboot(8) might be a useful part of a remote upgrade strategy. On 02-Mar-01 Brooks Davis wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 01:52:33PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: >> You can't reboot to single user mode when you are doing a remote >> update. He is specifically asking about the best way to do >> a remote update. You have to do everything multiuser and accept >> the risk, but there is still the question of what order minimizes >> the risk. > > The give one is it. It's going to be pretty easy to talk a NOC monkey > through booting the system on the old kernel, but damn near impossiable > to get them through recovering a system with a busted kernel and a > userland that won't work with the old one. > > -- Brooks > > -- > Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. > PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 -------------- Duane H. Hesser dhh@androcles.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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