Mergemaster on a distant system

2004-12-04 Thread ptitoliv
Hello everybody, I would like to upgrade one of my FreeBSD boxes but I have a little problem with the mergemaster. It is said in the handbook that is necessary to reboot on single mode in order to modify config file using mergemaster. But the problem is that the box concerned is not physically

Re: Mergemaster on a distant system

2004-12-04 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 06:49:15PM +0100, ptitoliv wrote: Hello everybody, I would like to upgrade one of my FreeBSD boxes but I have a little problem with the mergemaster. It is said in the handbook that is necessary to reboot on single mode in order to modify config file using

Re: Mergemaster on a distant system

2004-12-04 Thread Sam Nilsson
Erik Trulsson wrote: It is not necessary to reboot or go into single user mode in order to run mergemaster, and I doubt the handbook says it is necessary. It is sometimes necessary to reboot with a new kernel to let installworld work properly, but most of the time rebooting is not needed. It is