Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:25:05 -0400 (EDT) From: jonathan@kc8onw.net To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8ystein_Holmen?= <webmaster@uhort.no> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rebuilding "world" without physical access Message-ID: <34845.144.104.30.6.1126823105.squirrel@kc8onw.net> In-Reply-To: <4329F111.2090505@incubus.de> References: <07276B16-05B6-4765-B9AA-E8BBB2B634F2@uhort.no> <4329F111.2090505@incubus.de>
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> Øystein Holmen wrote: > >> users. Could I just stop apache and follow the canonical way, except I >> don't go into single user mode? > > Usually works. I've never rebooted into single-user during the upgrade > procedure and haven't encountered any problems in 10 years of doing it > that way. Also, often it isn't possible, for example, when using a > hosted server w/o remote console access. > > mkb. I've done it myself several times as well but I was right next to it if something went wrong. As long as you can deal with it being down for however long it would take to get to it then I would say go for it. Just be sure to follow all the usual warnings, back everything up etc. As someone else mentioned you don't even have to stop any services on the box although depending on how far you are upgrading you may want to recompile ports after the upgrade. HTH, Jonathan
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