From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 6 19:11:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9B0937B401 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 19:11:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (root@shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA62643; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 21:11:20 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nasby@shell-1.enteract.com) Received: (from nasby@localhost) by shell-1.enteract.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f173BJh58006; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 21:11:19 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nasby) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 21:11:19 -0600 From: "Jim C. Nasby" To: Elliot Finley Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Activating Soft Updates remotely Message-ID: <20010206211119.H39073@enteract.com> Reply-To: jim@nasby.net Mail-Followup-To: "Jim C. Nasby" , Elliot Finley , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from efinley@efinley.com on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:06:39PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG All you have to do is enable softupdates on the filesystems you want using tunefs -n enable. I believe the fs must not be mounted when you do this. man tunefs for more info. On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:06:39PM -0700, Elliot Finley wrote: > 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 -- Jim C. Nasby (aka Decibel!) /^\ jim@nasby.net /___\ Freelance lighting designer and database developer / | \ Member: Triangle Fraternity, Sports Car Club of America /___|___\ Give your computer some brain-candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Get paid to surf!! http://www.enteract.com/~nasby/alladvantage.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message