Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 14:22:02 -0700 From: "Patrick Soltani" <psoltani@ultradns.com> To: "Shawn Walker" <shawn@eblend.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Remote Upgrade Message-ID: <3DBB075EEB95944492E127F2B9A96FAF539525@ultra-exchange.UltraDNS.com>
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I have upgraded my production firewalls, FreeBSD 4.x, over the network = with little or no problems. Here is the recipe, couple of cvsup for src tree couple of cvsup for ports tree make -j 16 buildworld > somefile0 make buildkernel KERNCONF=3DMYKERNEL0 > somefile1 make installkernel KERNCONF=3DMYKERNEL0 > somefile2 make installworld > somefile3 reboot the machine mergemaster. The last part is kind of tricky, but executed without any options, you = get a chance to read the changes and apply the ones you want. If the machine is a 7X24 production box and you can not have it downed, = then put the lines above into a script, hopefully with some error = checking, etc and do a "nice or renice" so it runs in the background and = when finished emails you. Regards, Patrick Soltani. =20 P.S. Although I have had no problems doing this, I had a console switch = with an attached modem hooked up to the serial port so if anything went = wrong, still I could get to the machine to revive it. > -----Original Message----- > From: Shawn Walker [mailto:shawn@eblend.org] > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 8:54 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Remote Upgrade >=20 >=20 > Hello, >=20 > I currently have a box running 4.1-RELEASE. It is not=20 > possible for me > to gain physical access to the box, so I was wondering if it=20 > is possible to > upgrade the box remotely. I have looked at the instructions=20 > in the handbook > and in /usr/src/UPDATING, but there is some mention of a few=20 > steps that > should be completed in single user mode. Is it possible to do this > remotely? >=20 > Thanks, >=20 > --=20 > Shawn Walker > shawn@eblend.org <-----> http://www.eblend.org/ >=20 > "In rural areas, we're not going to have full coverage until=20 > cows talk." > -- Dan Dan Wilinsky, Sprint PCS >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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