Craig, I looked and it seemed that no one ever answered you on this but I wanted to let you know that although its true you should drop to single user it is not imperative. Especially if you are only upgrading minor versions (5.2.1 - 5.3). I might be weary of doing a remote upgrade of 4 box to 5. Anyway in both 4 and 5 branches I have successfully upgraded servers in other cities such as Boston from my couch in Houston. So far I haven't had a single problem doing this but I'm sure one of these days it will bite me. In any case you can do remote upgrades in multi-user mode
I believe the reason they recommend single user mode is to avoid problems in which other users otherwise could have be modifying files at the same time as you are upgrading. Anyway its not recommended but from what I have seen on mail/DNS servers its not terribly dangerous since you don't have other users logged on to the server editing files. Generally they only changes on mail and DNS servers are being made in var. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Craig Lewis Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 2:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [IMGate] Re: and FreeBSD I realize this is pretty far off topic, so if you reply, please reply to me, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and not clutter the list unless you think this is particularly relevant. I am not looking for step by step, just a ... oh sure you can... just try this... First of all a couple people suggested that the fact that I use SCP and public key auth to move relay recipient lists was unnecessary, unless my mgate was not on the local network... well, sure enough, my backup gate is a thousand miles away, which brings me to my current dilemma, how do I perform major version upgrade remotely, my reading of cvs indicates that they recommend you go down to single user mode during the process. any upgrade from files on disk or cd implies that I must (?) boot from the installer program and kernel with all sort of warnings about what can go wrong if you run a different version of the installer from the version you are upgrading... to. (i.e. running /stand/sysinstall). My current guess is I either have to drive there, or walk someone through it over the phone, or just shutdown every service and process I think I can and... make installworld ?? On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 14:13, Richard Cramer wrote: > I would encourage anyone moving to the 5.x versions to run v5.3.x. In > other words, load the v5.3-RELEASE to start, but CVS update to the current > 5.3.x build. All the instructions for doing this are in the FreeBSD Manual > on their website. In fact you should CVS update every couple of > months. Much easier to keep your system current with the latest fixes that > way. > > Most of the serious FreeBSD users do this. However, this is my > recommendation and YMMV. > > Dick > > At 02:16 PM 1/14/2005, you wrote: > > >I am running it on 5.3 with no problems. > > > > -- > President Cramer Systems Consulting / Sytex Access [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mid-Atlantic: Washington DC/Fairfax, VA --- South > East: Bradenton/Sarasota/Tampa, FL > Managed Hosting & Collocation, Managed Services, LAN & WAN Engineering, > Unix Consulting > We use and support: FreeBSD, MAC OS X, Sun Systems, Apache & Postfix > >
