From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 15 10:11:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA2637B40B for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:11:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f5FHBCt04708; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:11:12 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:11:11 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Joe Clarke Cc: Veaceslav Revutchi , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: enabling softupdates remotely Message-ID: <20010615121111.A25587@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20010615172047.A39098@zeus.dnt.md> <20010615102305.V9250-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010615102305.V9250-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.19i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT 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 In the last episode (Jun 15), Joe Clarke said: > On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Veaceslav Revutchi wrote: > > Is there a way to enable softupdates remotely and how? > > Do you have your box booting its console to a serial port? I do it > over a comm server. I have always brought my box down to single user > mode and unmounted disks to apply softupdates. I don't know if > things have changed such that you can do SU live. I've remotely enabled softupdates on / and /usr by adding "tunefs -n enable /" and "tunefs -n enable /usr" to the very top of /etc/rc and rebooting :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message