From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 1 14:16:18 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C3EB16A41C for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 14:16:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CAB643D1D for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 14:16:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j51EGE9f016281; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 09:16:14 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <429DC31C.4020000@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 09:15:56 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050504 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sam References: <43866.62.2.21.164.1117631913.squirrel@www.gwch.net> <429DB9B2.70405@t-hosting.hu> <429DC1FB.5000606@tech-21.com.hk> In-Reply-To: <429DC1FB.5000606@tech-21.com.hk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to update my system X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 14:16:18 -0000 sam wrote: > Jim Thompson wrote: >=20 >> >> >> On Jun 1, 2005, at 3:35 AM, K=F6vesd=E1n G=E1bor wrote: >> >>> >>> Reboot into single user mode, remount root with mount -u, then: >>> >>> cd /usr/src >>> make installworld >> >> >> >> I keep seeing this, and its all fine and dandy, I even understand =20 >> some of the reasons why its a good idea. >> >> But friends, I, and probably a million other people, run FreeBSD in =20 >> colo space, and in my case, its a 3000 mile >> trip (across the ocean, so I can't even drive) to go visit the poor =20 >> machines. >> >> So, what about a short discussion on the risks of ignoring the =20 >> request to go to single-user? >> >> and yeah, I know about serial consoles. >> > I guess you are talking about binary update. This had been discuessed=20 > million times in the newsgroup. I feel that if you have a handy tool of= =20 > binary update thru the www, that will be able to bring you a happy=20 > profit. There was an open-source server code called binary update, it=20 > keeps in private sector now. That company is using it offers service to= =20 > freebsd community. If you want to join them you can pay them a fair=20 > amount of dollars then you can have your freebsd system binary update=20 > regularly thru their server. Are you talking about this: http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/ Eric --=20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. ------------------------------------------------------------------------