rebooting into single user mode on a remote server

[Ahmad Arafat Abdullah]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "pobox at verysmall.org" <pobox at verysmall.org>
> To: "Daniel Gerzo" <danger at FreeBSD.org>
> Subject: Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server
> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:49:34 +0200
> 
> 
> Daniel Gerzo wrote:
> > Hello pobox,
> >
> > Saturday, September 16, 2006, 8:47:04 PM, you wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >
> >> could somebody help me to understand the best way to enter into a single
> >> user mode on a remote server.
> >
> >> I need it for the moment, during rebuilding world, when I have to reboot
> >> into single user mode before 'mergemaster -p'.
> >
> > I don't want to persuade you to something that is not officially
> > supported, but I have never booted into single user mode while
> > upgrading my FreeBSD boxes and I have never experienced any problems
> > because of this. Just try to skip the reboot step and go ahead. It
> > works(tm) for me this way.
> >
> > If you are paranoid, try to stop all running services except the ssh
> > deamon.
> 
> Phew... I hear this again and again.
> 
> Only I am not sure I have the level of boldness to do this on a 
> production machine.
> 
> Isn't the following sequence of steps similar - 'shutdown -r now' 
> (reboots in multi-user mode), and then immediately 'shutdown now' 
> (drops to single user mode)?
> 
> Iv.
> 
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dudes,

I never tried it, and not dare to try it.. because it's a remote server and 
single mode maybe ( I'm not sure dude ) cut off all network connections from 
inside and outside..

anyway for remote servers, i'm prefer make installwold in normal mode.. it's safer


TQ 

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