rebooting into single user mode on a remote server
Rafael Aquino
freebsd at bsdserver.com.br
Mon Sep 18 11:09:50 PDT 2006
Hi there...
Just to contribute, I also ALWAYS upgrade my systems without single
user mode, for "remote" reasons... ;-)
Same instructions: shut down all services, except inetd/ssh, installworld,
mergemaster and reboot...
I even posted in this list, months ago, a step-by-step to remotely
upgrade from 4.x to 6.x. I agree that this is a very risky task,
but before the first production server, I tried more than 40 times
(not kidding) in my test lab.
[]´s
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Rafael Mentz Aquino
BSDServer Ltda.
51 - 9847 8825
---------- Original Message -----------
From: Daniel Gerzo <danger at freebsd.org>
To: "pobox at verysmall.org" <pobox at verysmall.org>
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Sent: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:32:05 +0200
Subject: Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server
> 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.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Daniel mailto:danger at FreeBSD.org
>
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