On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 10:03:12AM -0700, Paul English wrote:
> I've had different experiences installing upgrades from ports
> while users are using the software. I'm particularly concerned with
> XFree86. /usr/X11R6 is being served from a central NFS server and all of
> the clients are using X. Will they be disrupted if I do a "make install"
> to upgrade XFree86 4.1.0 to 4.2.0? The config files should be the same,
> and in any case shouldn't be put in place by the install. But all of the
> libraries are going to change out from under a running system.
It's definitely better to perform upgrades while the system is
quiescent. Especially when those updates include new shared libraries
--- you do want all your users to quit all their X applications which
have those shared libraries mapped into their images, or the space on
the filesystem used by the shlibs won't be released.
Probably easiest is to wait for a quiet time, get all your users to
log out and then un-export the shared filesystem and do the install.
For ultimate sanity preservation, there's always the option of
dropping the machine to single user mode to do the install.
Cheers,
Matthew
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