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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 22:18:13 -0500 (EST)
From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@jaguar.ir.miami.edu>
Subject: Re: kern.securelevel
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Yeah, it mentions that in a man page somewhere, or in Greg's Complete
FreeBSD book.  You can raise the value, but the only way to lower it is to
reboot.  Check out man (8) sysctl.  The variable is type "raise
only".

Joe Clarke

On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Doug wrote:

> hey,
> 
> How can I change the value of kern.securelevel? from 1 to -1? sysctl doesnt
> allow you to lower the value.
> 
> Thanks,
> Doug
> 
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