Very good! That is just what I meant. I hope that can somehow make its 
way into the FAQ...Thank you Andre.

Chas

Andre Schulze as8-at-rcs.urz.tu-dresden.de |netbsd| wrote:

>Am Wed den 06 Aug 2003 um 04:54:27PM -0700 schrieb Chas Posinoff:
>  
>
>>Thank you Andre - this should come in very handy in the future.
>>
>>Would you feel comfortable submitting your words of wisdom to the 
>>port-cobalt FAQ?
>>
>>List, who's maintaining that FAQ anyway? I seem to remember it has a few 
>>    
>>
>
>The thing about the running ssh service remains to be validated. It would
>be exaggerated to advice people to install and start a copy of ssh
>in /usr/local if it is not really necessary to have a copy that
>is not being overwritten during the update.
>This is a suggestion for the FAQ, without the ssh precausions in
>question.
>
>Q: How can i update to a new release of NetBSD?
>
>A: Untar the distribution in the / directory. You should skip the
>   etc.tgz file to keep your old settings.
>   Before doing the update shut down all services which are not
>   vital for the update. In case you are using a serial console
>   you can terminate all services (and all other running processes)
>   by saying:
>
>	kill -TERM 1
>
>   If you are maintaining your system remotely you must make sure
>   to keep the sshd service alive. Stop the non vital services
>   manually by saying:
>
>	/etc/rc.d/${service} stop
>
>   repeatately for every non vital service. To get a hint what
>   services are active you can have a look:
>
>	ps ax
>
>   Untar the distribution:
>
>	cd /
>	tar pzxvf --unlink ${distfile}
>
>   Copy the kernel to the place where the bootloader expects it
>   and make a backup before that if you like:
>
>	cp /boot/vmlinuz.gz /boot/netbsd-old.gz
>	cp ${kernel} /boot/vmlinux.gz
>
>   Reboot the box:
>
>	reboot
>
>HTH,
>
>	andre
>  
>