From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 6 11:45:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from deborah.paradise.net.nz (deborah.paradise.net.nz [203.96.152.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4B3237B4EC for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 11:45:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from evileye (203-79-95-94.apx0.paradise.net.nz [203.79.95.94]) by deborah.paradise.net.nz (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id f16JjG528602; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 08:45:17 +1300 (NZDT) Message-ID: <00c901c09075$39bbb470$0101a8c0@evileye> From: "Mark Ibell" To: , References: Subject: Re: Activating Soft Updates remotely Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 08:44:28 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you're able to remount the filesystems read-only it should be simple: e.g for /usr. # mount -u -r /usr # tunefs -n enable /usr # mount -u /usr Hope this helps, Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elliot Finley" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 8:06 AM Subject: Activating Soft Updates remotely Hello, I have a 4-stable system that I admin remotely. How would I go about enable softupdates on it? Would I need to hack /etc/rc to enable it during a reboot? -- Elliot Finley (efinley@efinley.com) You can judge the quality of your life by how often you notice and enjoy the little things. Weird Science! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message