Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 01:52:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org> To: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> Cc: Tony <tony@cyberosity.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make World Time Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9909200147310.19419-100000@jason.argos.org> In-Reply-To: <199909200218.TAA20106@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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> I know there has been some paranoia on this list about doing the > updates in single user mode, but I've never had any problem doing > either a "make world" or a "make installworld" with the system in > its normal operating mode. > > So, I'd recommend you do "make buildworld >& Make.out &" in normal > run mode. Examine the output file for warnings or crashes. If it > looks ok, then run "make installworld". I doubt your users will > even notice. One time (ONE, out of hundreds), something got outta sync on one of the machines I run doing a "make installworld" -- don't remember the exact situation, but it was something like a binary getting installed & executed before the library that it required was installed... Not a big deal, but my phone started ringing when a user wanted to know why his job didn't work correctly. Doing a "make buildworld" is (almost) absoultely safe while running multiuser, and that's the part that takes so long... If you want to be extremely careful about it (and also a little anal), you can do the "make installworld" in single-user after it's built in multiuser.... --mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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