From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 1 10: 0:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from malkavian.org (malkavian.org [206.136.132.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E80A37B424 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:00:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rbw@myplace.org) Received: (from rbw@localhost) by malkavian.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f51H0Pd60739 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 13:00:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rbw@myplace.org) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:00:25 -0700 From: "brian j. peterson" To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem with chflags Message-ID: <20010601100025.C30589@malkavian.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <5.0.0.25.1.20010601035159.03d92508@popserver.sfu.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from boland@carmel.diva.nl on Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:03:57PM +0200 X-URL: http://rbw.myplace.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:03:57PM +0200, Michiel Boland wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Colin Percival wrote: > > Well I'm just a clueless bumbling newbie myself, but since nobody else > > seems to have answered yet... it sounds to me like you're running at a > > positive securelevel. You probably want to edit rc.conf and reboot in > > order to set the securelevel back to zero, at which point you'll be able to > > proceed with the install. > > No, you want to read /usr/src/UPDATING and boot into single-user mode > before make installworld. a more complete reference on this topic can be found at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html it's a very thorough guide and even has some tips to help speed the build process. as i learned very quickly the first time i tried to 'make world', the directions in /usr/src/UPDATING are very general and leave out several important steps of the process. -- --===-----=======-----------=============-----------------=================== | rbw aka bjp | god's final message to his creation: | | rbw@myplace.org | we apologize for the inconvenience. | ===================-----------------=============-----------=======-----===-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message