FreeBSD Patch question

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 04:13:30PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
+> > I administer a remote server and want to apply some of the security
+> > patches.  (I assume this is the best way to go since I can't go into
+> > single-user mode to use CVsup). 
+> 
+> I generally follow the following practice:
+> 
+>   cvsup in multiuser
+>   buildworld in multiuser
+>   buildkernel in multiuser

IMHO installkernel in multiuser is safe to as long as you don't need to
load any kernel modules after this step.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       pawel at dawidek.net
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