From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 3 9: 4:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.yourfit.com (28.wxfr1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.150.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFD6537B5F5 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 09:04:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Received: from armani.yourfit.com (armani.yourfit.com [192.168.1.120]) by mail.yourfit.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA01852; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 12:03:54 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 12:03:54 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: Chris BeHanna To: Gabriel Ambuehl Cc: Nader Turki , jim@jmock.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[2]: Upgrading from 4.1-R to 4.1-S In-Reply-To: <21197548249.20000803173949@buz.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > Hello Chris, > > Thursday, August 03, 2000, 5:30:25 PM, you wrote: > > > You should go to single-user mode if you're going to make world > > (see above). > > I even do make installworld (from 4-S to 4-S, wouldn't risk it > when changing a major release but 4.1 to 4-S shouldn't be a big > difference at the moment) while running normal and never encountered > any problems. So why should I switch to single user mode (which is > pretty unsexy for production 24x7 servers anyway...)? /usr/src/UPDATING recommends it because you're going to be changing executables and libraries out from under currently-running daemons. This could cause failures in spectacular fashion for any executables that dynamically load libraries that may have changed since the time the daemon was started. If you want to minimize the downtime, do "make buildworld" in multi-user mode instead, then drop to single-user mode and do "make installworld" and reboot. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (at yourfit.com) behanna@zbzoom.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message