From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Dec 2 1: 1:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC65637B401; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 01:01:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90B7243EB2; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 01:01:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from katana.zip.com.au (katana.zip.com.au [61.8.7.246]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA10377; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 20:01:36 +1100 Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 20:15:33 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: shelton@sentry.granch.ru, Subject: Re: bin/45906: mergemaster stops when kern.securelevel > 1 In-Reply-To: <200212020838.gB28cjmh087292@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: <20021202201116.L3546-100000@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Synopsis: mergemaster stops when kern.securelevel > 1 > > This is not a bug. The documented way of upgrading from source > includes booting into single-user mode before running mergemaster. > When in single-user mode kern.securelevel hasn't been raised, yet. > You will have no problems then. I disagree that this is not a bug. The emptyness of /var/empty is mainly cosmetic. It has nothing to do with security. The cosmetic part should be implemented using uchg if at all. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message