On 12/18/18 10:50 PM, Brian Neal wrote:
Hello,
I’m looking for advice on doing a release upgrade of a running instance. It
looks like the normal procedure using freebsd-update requires a reboot between
invocations of the install command, but after the first reboot, most of the
userland is non-functional, including most importantly sshd. Is it safe to run
the install commands back to back without rebooting? Or is the only safe
procedure to build a new instance from scratch for each release?
I've done it successfully in the past but IIRC it was pretty sketchy - i
think i put script in /etc/rc.local to finish the upgrade.
for dev purposes i've done upgrades via rebuilding from source without
too much drama. i'd due to the build/mergemasters and installworld
before a reboot. but again this was for dev/testing, so if things
didn't work out loosing data was a non-issue.
I've since decided that one of the advantages of AWS is that I can
easily just allocate a new VM, but this is predicated that I've got all
my configs in a config mgmt engine and my user volumes exist on an EBS
volume.
-pete
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Pete Wright
[email protected]
@nomadlogicLA
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