Re: Running Stable on remote production server

2001-05-14 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Juha Saarinen([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.05.14 08:12:07 +: > On Sun, 13 May 2001, Stephen Hilton wrote: > > > How can you accomplish the single user installworld steps on a remote system ? > > Especially the mergemaster program that involves interactive routines ? > > I would be using SSH to con

Re: Running Stable on remote production server

2001-05-14 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Stephen Hilton([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.05.13 10:57:03 +: > Subject: Re: Running Stable on remote production server > > How can you accomplish the single user installworld steps on a remote system ? > Especially the mergemaster program that involves interactive routines ? > I

Re: Running Stable on remote production server

2001-05-13 Thread Juha Saarinen
On Sun, 13 May 2001, Mike Smith wrote: > It's entirely unnecessary to go single-user when updating a machine; just > rebuild the world, optionally run mergemaster, and reboot. > > Exceptions to this rule do occur, but they're *extremely* rare. Having rebuilt a number of machines remotely in the

Re: Running Stable on remote production server

2001-05-13 Thread Mike Smith
> I have been reading the instructions for tracking stable and what is > recommended in the way of procedures. It seems from this that it would be > extremely hard to follow these recommendations for a remote POP. IE moving > to single user mode and on the whole messing with the machine for seve

RE: Running Stable on remote production server

2001-05-13 Thread Juha Saarinen
On Sun, 13 May 2001, Stephen Hilton wrote: > How can you accomplish the single user installworld steps on a remote system ? > Especially the mergemaster program that involves interactive routines ? > I would be using SSH to connect to a remote FreeBSD box. Why do you have to run mergemaster in s