Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:36:08 +0300 From: Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua> To: Paulo Fragoso <paulo@nlink.com.br> Cc: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>, Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk>, Michiel Boland <boland@alexander.diva.nl>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.6-RELEASE -> 4.5-RELENG Message-ID: <20020711093608.GD45527@nevermind.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <20020710154619.M93085-100000@mirage.nlink.com.br> References: <20020710175614.7F3535D03@ptavv.es.net> <20020710154619.M93085-100000@mirage.nlink.com.br>
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Hello, Paulo Fragoso! On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 03:59:55PM -0300, you wrote: > > While there are a few niggles, the proper sequence is: > > mergemaster -p (This is NEW!) > > make buildworld > > make kernel KERNCONF=your_kernel_conf_name > > REBOOT into single-user mode! (This does not mean drop to single user.) > > fsck -p > > mount -a -t ufs > > cd /usr/src > > make installworld > > mergemaster -i (-a is a bit inadequate unless you go back and clean up > > the mess it often leaves before going to multi-user > > mode.) > > exit (to multi-user mode) > We have a doubt, if we have kern.securelevel=-1 and we are doing a > security upgrade (for example: that server is using 4.6-RELEASE and its > tag is tag=RELENG_4_6), are there any reason to switch to single-user > mode? > > We are upgrading remotely some servers without switch to sigle-user, but > in all cases are security upgrade only and all works fine. We are using 1 server for serial console server, and upgrade our systems from single mode over serial console remotely. -- NEVE-RIPE Ukrainian FreeBSD User Group http://uafug.org.ua/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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