On 12/18/18 10:50 PM, Brian Neal wrote:> Hello, > > I?m looking for advice on doing a release upgrade of a running instance. It looks like the normal procedure using freebsd-update requires a reboot between invocations of the install command, but after the first reboot, most of the userland is non-functional, including most importantly sshd. Is it safe to run the install commands back to back without rebooting? Or is the only safe procedure to build a new instance from scratch for each release?I've done it successfully in the past but IIRC it was pretty sketchy - i think i put script in /etc/rc.local to finish the upgrade. for dev purposes i've done upgrades via rebuilding from source without too much drama.? i'd due to the build/mergemasters and installworld before a reboot.? but again this was for dev/testing, so if things didn't work out loosing data was a non-issue. I've since decided that one of the advantages of AWS is that I can easily just allocate a new VM, but this is predicated that I've got all my configs in a config mgmt engine and my user volumes exist on an EBS volume. -pete -- Pete Wright pete at nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA