Re: make world question on remote dedicated server

2004-03-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 05:46:54PM +1100, Mark Sams wrote: > I am thinking of getting a FreeBSD dedicated server > that I will only have ssh access to. What is the > normal procedure of keeping up to date with kernel > changes when you do not have console access? The usual procedure is to get c

Re: make world question on remote dedicated server

2004-03-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Mark Sams wrote: Hi, I am thinking of getting a FreeBSD dedicated server that I will only have ssh access to. What is the normal procedure of keeping up to date with kernel changes when you do not have console access? Is it possible to drop into single user mode remotely? No. At least, not

make world question on remote dedicated server

2004-03-02 Thread Mark Sams
Hi, I am thinking of getting a FreeBSD dedicated server that I will only have ssh access to. What is the normal procedure of keeping up to date with kernel changes when you do not have console access? Is it possible to drop into single user mode remotely? Or is single user mode not necessary fo

Re: Make world question

2003-08-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 04:10:58PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: > > > *default host=cvsup11.FreeBSD.org > > > *default base=/usr > > > *default prefix=/usr > > > *default release=cvs > > > *default tag=RELENG_4 > > > > RELENG_4 gets you 4.8-STABLE. From what you say above, you probably > > wa

RE: Make world question

2003-08-18 Thread Charles Howse
> > *default host=cvsup11.FreeBSD.org > > *default base=/usr > > *default prefix=/usr > > *default release=cvs > > *default tag=RELENG_4 > > RELENG_4 gets you 4.8-STABLE. From what you say above, you probably > want RELENG_4_8 which gets you 4.8-RELEASE-p3 at the moment. Thanks for a very i

Re: Make world question

2003-08-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:53:55PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: > Hi, > I haven't done this before, and even though I have "FreeBSD Unleashed", > and have read several articles from bsdvault.net and the relevant > section of the handbook, I still have a simple question. > > I want to stay at a 'pro

Make world question

2003-08-18 Thread Charles Howse
Hi, I haven't done this before, and even though I have "FreeBSD Unleashed", and have read several articles from bsdvault.net and the relevant section of the handbook, I still have a simple question. I want to stay at a 'production' version of FreeBSD. I'm currently running 4.8-RELEASE, which I in