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Date:      Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:11:11 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        Veaceslav Revutchi <sl@zeus.dnt.md>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: enabling softupdates remotely
Message-ID:  <20010615121111.A25587@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010615102305.V9250-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>
References:  <20010615172047.A39098@zeus.dnt.md> <20010615102305.V9250-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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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

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