From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 24 10:24:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1373E37B406 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:24:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk) Received: from caomhin.demon.co.uk ([212.228.234.119]) by anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 15P5uy-0006aK-0V for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:24:26 +0100 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:22:44 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Kevin Golding Subject: make world from across the globe MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm planning an upgrade from 4.2 -> 4.3 release but there's a couple of things I'm a bit uncertain about. The problem is that I have no direct access to the machine in question, I usually just connect with ssh and for day to day stuff that serves me just fine, but from the stuff I've read about upgrades I should drop down to single user mode for the final stages like make installworld. Now to my knowledge this makes remote logins a problem. I've thought about setting /etc/ttys to insecure and then just dropping down but I'm not exactly confident that'll work. I've also read which looks like I might be able to avoid dropping to single user if I'm *very* careful, prepared and desperate. I'm therefore hoping someone can point me in the direction of either i) a way to login across the Internet or ii) a way to do a source upgrade without dropping to single user TIA Kevin -- kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message