First questions: rebuilding world

[David Jenkins]

On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 00:59:50 -0500, Joseph H. Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:
> Thanks!  So you can do everything in multiuser mode, or do you still
> have to drop to single user mode to actually install the new kernel and
> new system binaries?
> 
> Also, does doing all of this bring me to the most recent stable release?
> (I noticed that 5.3 was released yesterday, presumably just after I
> downloaded 5.2.1).

I've done it once in multiuser mode and it all went fine. I did read
somewhere that if you do have to do it this way because getting
physical access to the machine is difficult, then make sure you shut
down as many services/processes as you can. i.e just make sure sshd is
the only daemon running etc ...

If you've used the correct TAG in your cvsup files and have cvsup'd
over the last day or so, then you should build 5.3-RELEASE.

Hope this helps.

David