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Date:      Thu, 03 Aug 2000 12:53:01 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net>
Cc:        Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>, Nader Turki <nturki@adelphia.net>, jim@jmock.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Re[2]: Upgrading from 4.1-R to 4.1-S 
Message-ID:  <200008031853.MAA04532@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Aug 2000 12:03:54 EDT." <Pine.WNT.4.21.0008031201560.356-100000@armani.yourfit.com> 
References:  <Pine.WNT.4.21.0008031201560.356-100000@armani.yourfit.com>  

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In message <Pine.WNT.4.21.0008031201560.356-100000@armani.yourfit.com> Chris BeHanna writes:
:     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.

This is the "safe" way of doing things.  One can often get away with
the make installworld in multiuser mode (In fact, I just did it last
night).  However, it is wisest to reboot after that so that things
like sendmail isn't "cross threaded" with one version running for the
daemons and another running for outgoing mail.  One can often get away
with it, but it isn't supported.

Basically there are lots of potential problems that are eliminated by
doing the installworld in single-user mode.

Warner


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