Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 22:30:30 +0000 From: "Guilherme J. R. Oliveira" <guilherme@nortenet.pt> Cc: FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Production Machine, Custom Kernel, Updating to P9 Message-ID: <3E7E3586.9000506@nortenet.pt> In-Reply-To: <20030323231358.5e29af1e.Alexander@Leidinger.net> References: <20030322125653.V11496@seven.alameda.net> <20030323080106.3D7195499@bert.int.kts.org> <20030323004521.W11496@seven.alameda.net> <3E7DD572.1020700@nortenet.pt> <20030323231358.5e29af1e.Alexander@Leidinger.net>
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Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 15:40:34 +0000 > "Guilherme J. R. Oliveira" <guilherme@nortenet.pt> wrote: > > >>>I usual do not bring it down, but I usual stop services before doing it. >>>Stopping services, installworld, mergemaster and reboot is usual only >>>5 minutes. >>> >> >>What could happen if I don't stop the services: the file won't be >>updated because it's open or what ? > > > No, it will get updated. We don't have advisory locks, we have > cooperative locks. The only thing which can happen is: the service > segfaults, dies, hangs, aborts, stops, produces garbage or continues to > operate as usual. Umm, I'm asking this because I'll need do this remotely. So it's "secure" installworld remotely and then remotely reboot the machine ? This way we load the fresh binaries daemons in memory. I was confused thinking the binaries (in disc) weren't updated if we had the daemons running. This way it works too... -- mailto:guilherme@nortenet.pt || http://guilherme.host-valley.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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