portmaster -a on a live server

Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questions at mailing.thruhere.net
Tue Apr 21 08:37:31 UTC 2009


On Tuesday 21 April 2009 01:38:26 Tom Worster wrote:

> portmaster -a -x mysql-server
> portmaster mysql-server
> reboot

No no no. /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start. Reboot is for kernel 
upgrades. And never use reboot unless in single user mode, cause reboot is 
really fast reboot: it doesn't stop services nicely. Use shutdown -r now.
-- 
Mel


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