From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 10 11:46:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alfred.oau.org (ubr-27.208.117.pinecastle.cfl.rr.com [24.27.208.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A5B137B423 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 11:46:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from elliot@oau.org) Received: (from elliot@localhost) by alfred.oau.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA69413; Thu, 10 May 2001 14:43:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ebd@alfred.oau.org) From: Elliot Dierksen Message-Id: <200105101843.OAA69413@alfred.oau.org> Subject: Re: Kernel install problem - 4.3-stable In-Reply-To: <20010510123605.H26110@welearn.com.au> "from Sue Blake at May 10, 2001 12:36:05 pm" To: Sue Blake Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 14:43:26 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting Sue Blake: >On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:31:37PM -0400, Elliot Dierksen wrote: >> I am having an odd problem with a 4.3-STABLE box. I can not install a >> kernel update. More properly, I can not issue a "chflags noschg /kernel" > >It sounds like your securelevel is >0 (normally a good idea) and that's >preventing chflags. See init(8) for the securelevel description, >rc.conf(5) to set it, and sysctl(8) to view or raise it. You are exactly right! I guess the standard solution for that would be to either get to single user mode, or comment out the security level raise in rc.conf, reboot and then put it back in. Thanx! EBD -- Elliot Dierksen "I'm a peripheral visionary. I can see the future, but only way off to the sides." -- Steven Wright Home) ebd@oau.org (407) 850-9760 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message