From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 6 13:20:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thor.afnetinc.com (thor.afnetinc.com [206.40.232.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4162C37B401 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:20:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from [206.40.232.128] (helo=SCIENCE1) by thor.afnetinc.com with smtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 14QFXC-0001uZ-00; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 14:20:23 -0700 From: Elliot Finley To: "Mark Ibell" Cc: Subject: Re: Activating Soft Updates remotely Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 14:22:02 -0700 Organization: System Hog (www.systemhog.com) Reply-To: efinley@efinley.com Message-ID: References: <00c901c09075$39bbb470$0101a8c0@evileye> In-Reply-To: <00c901c09075$39bbb470$0101a8c0@evileye> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had to use the -f flag on /var, but other than that, this worked. = Thanx! On Wed, 7 Feb 2001 08:44:28 +1300, Mark Ibell wrote: >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? --=20 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