From: "Geo." 

what happens when you recompile the entire system, it puts the new compile
someplace different than the version it's running? When the compile is done
you don't have to reboot to use all the new compiled files?

Geo.

"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
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>
> Yup, a six hours to recompile the entire operating system and all the
> programs that were delivered with it.  The system running OpenBSD is a
> 200MHz Pentium II with a slow 5400rpm IDE drive and 64 MB memory.
> It's the firewall on my DSL line.
>
> To update a single program takes a few minutes, and no reboots.  It is
> the reboot that is troublesome, because the compile can progress while
> I'm still using the system.  But a reboot, well, I have to sit and
> watch it, and wait until its done before I can do anything else.
>
>  /m

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