Ah, sure that makes perfect sense. I'll have to gather up someone to run the power button on the other servers that need upgrading.
Thanks! Sent from my iPhone, Reluctantly hunting and pecking on a virtual keyboard :-) > On Oct 9, 2013, at 4:20 PM, Paul de Weerd <we...@weirdnet.nl> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 03:56:49PM -0600, Jeff Ross wrote: > | Speaking of failing internet...using my phone... > | > | All of the programs at the end of my script are static binaries, > | either in /bin or /usr/sbin, so they should work, right? Yet nothing > | ran, ls and cat both failed with the bad system call error. > > All of these programs have just been replaced with newer versions that > have a different idea of which system call does what compared to the > old situation (the one your running kernel knows about). These > binaries being static or dynamic is irrelevant. Only the old ones are > capable of still running, that's why you copy /sbin/reboot to > /sbin/oreboot. > > Note that the oreboot trick isn't perfect: a proper shutdown will try > to nicely stop things (do you have stuff in /etc/rc.shutdown?) that > may fail too. > > The only guarranteed way to not fuck this up is to shutdown the > system and boot an upgrade kernel (e.g. bsd.rd). > > Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd > > -- >> ++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ > +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] > http://www.weirdnet.nl/
