Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:24:01 -0700 From: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> To: david@banning.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make world needs single user mode? Message-ID: <F199wr2UAaTzvb5YI9I0000ac9a@hotmail.com>
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>When I created my system I think I may have made my root system >too small. So I ended up linking a couple of the / directories >to /usr. > >I just now wondering if that will pose a problem for a make world. >If I remember correctly, I think you're supposed to go into single user >mode? > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Despite recommendations against doing so, I did a "make world" on my server both in multi-user mode AND remotely. I am really lucky that it all succeeded perfectly and will now stop living on the edge, but the point is that you can do make worlds in multiuser mode and not destroy the universe. When I first installed FreeBSD on my home system, I did qutie a few experiments to see if I could break it. Not that this has anything to do with what you asked, but you may find it interesting. I found: 1) Don't use every optimization that you can find on the kernel. This really pisses it off quite a bit. 2) You can "make world" doing just about anything. I had one going while also having FTP, WWW, and mail users. Somehow FreeBSD didn't get confused and it all worked fine. <clap clap clap> I wouldn't do this on a system of any importance though. 3) The only way that I found in all my travels to kill FreeBSD, short of messing with hardware, is by running a Linux app that has statically linked libraries on a FreeBSD 4.2 system that has Linux binary compatibility enabled. FreeBSD /really/ dislikes statically linked Linux apps. Other than that, I can't seem to crash it without cheating. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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