From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 4 7:14:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web14004.mail.yahoo.com (web14004.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9456B37B417 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 07:14:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20011204151411.52477.qmail@web14004.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [209.37.19.3] by web14004.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 04 Dec 2001 07:14:11 PST Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 07:14:11 -0800 (PST) From: Jamie Pemantell Subject: Re: kern.securelevel not working like it's supposed to To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011204112114.01b74b60@gomer.telstra.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Thanks to the people who replied on this. Just wanted to reply and note that this was a user gaff and not a problem with OS functionality. Early on while trying to fix my problem, I added a sysctl.conf file whose purpose was to set kern.securelevel to 0. This is most likely why INIT reset the variable every time at completion of boot; as soon as I removed this file I was able to successfully boot at -1. Thanks again, Jamie > Do you have a file /etc/sysctl.conf? It might be in > there. Otherwise, you > can expressly set kern_securelevel_enable="YES" and > kern_securelevel="-1" > in /etc/rc.conf. Works for me. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Buy the perfect holiday gifts at Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message