From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 27 03:39:08 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA01975 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 03:39:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vader.cs.berkeley.edu (vader.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.38.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA01967 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 03:39:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca13-237.ix.netcom.com [209.109.238.237]) by vader.cs.berkeley.edu (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA01656 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 03:39:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.1/8.6.9) id DAA65461; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 03:39:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 03:39:01 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199901271139.DAA65461@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: softupdates on / From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Today I tried to remotely upgrade a machine set up by someone else. Unfortunately softupdates was set in / and every make installworld fails in /sbin as it runs out of space. I'd dare not take down the machine in the middle of installworld (even though it's only upgrading from 3.0-current of about 3 weeks ago -- I've seen weird things happen). I ended up writing a script doing a "cd $dir; make install; sleep 10" in /usr/src/sbin and it's finally chugging along. Is there some other way out of this? Also, a caution to others -- do not set softupdates on /, you can get into a real mess. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message