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Date:      Sat, 4 Jul 1998 01:19:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Elliot Finley <efinley@afnetinc.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Q: doing make installworld in multiuser
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980704011817.12188S-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <359aaf48.16667664@mail.afnetinc.com>

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On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Elliot Finley wrote:

> Is it going to mess anything up to do a make buildworld, and make
> installworld while in multiuser mode with users on the system?  I'll
> be doing it nice-ly of course.

Ooof... this could cause some interesting race conditions during the
update.  I drop my workstation to single user to do the installworld and
subsequent kernel build; this way I don't break my running programs if the
libraries move or blow up again.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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