From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 22 2: 9:24 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CFC337B401 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 02:09:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40B9A43F75 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 02:09:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2MA9B4l008177; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 22:09:17 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h2MA9BnI008176; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 22:09:11 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 22:09:11 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: ksh@attbi.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Update / make world / stable Message-ID: <20030322100911.GA8142@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20030322100445.98FDA43FA3@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030322100445.98FDA43FA3@mx1.FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i 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 On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 10:04:44AM +0000, ksh@attbi.com wrote: > I'm currently running 4.7 Stable. > > I noticed two patches became available which are > FreeBSD-SA-03:06.openssl.asc > FreeBSD-SA-03:05.xdr.asc > > Instead of applying the patches ( patch < file.patch ) in /usr/src > I went ahead and just cvsup'd to RELENG_4 to get the most current > STABLE sources. > > I then went ahead and issued a "make buildworld" & "make installworld" > > My questions are: > > 1. I did not reboot the system at all. Are all my binaries stable? > 2. I did not rebuild a kernel since the kernel I am using is heavily > modified. Is this bad? Should I expect any future problems? Yes, this is BAD. FreeBSD requires that userland and kernel must be in sync. Bad experiences include unusable top, ps, ifconfig, netstat, and various other admin commands. > 3. If these steps are wrong, how would one go about updating his/her machine > to stable sources WITHOUT rebooting? You can't. You need to reboot to install your new kernel. -- Jonathan Chen Once is dumb luck. Twice is coincidence. Three times and Somebody Is Trying To Tell You Something. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message