From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 25 14:33:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53DFE37B410 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:33:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from geko (geko-tx.dmpriest.com [62.13.131.250]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.11.4/8.11.4/Kp) with ESMTP id f6PLZD745697; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:35:13 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:32:58 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz To: Bryce Newall , FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Can't set noschg ? Message-ID: <168610098.996100378@geko> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.0b2 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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 --On 25 July 2001 14:18 -0700 Bryce Newall wrote: > Hello, > > I was attempting to install a new kernel today, and the installkernel > failed with an "operation not permitted" message when it tried to do > "chflags noschg /kernel". I even tried it myself: > ># ls -lo kernel > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel schg 1483760 May 7 08:37 kernel* ># chflags noschg kernel > chflags: kernel: Operation not permitted This is probably due to the runlevel of the system/kernel... Check /etc/rc.conf - or 'man rc.conf' - and search for 'securelevel' -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message