Juha Saarinen([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.05.14 08:12:07 +0000:
> 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 single-user mode?
i think you don't explicitly have to but you should because it touches
delicate files that could at least irritate running and active
subsystems. i could imagine some daemons to badly barf about changing
uids in the password db while they are running ;-)
/k
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