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Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 08:50:22 -0500
From: Drew Sanford <lauasanf@wilderness.dyn.dhs.org>
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Subject: Enabling softupdates remotely?
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Is there any way to enable softupdates remotely? Since tunefs -n can't 
be run on a mounted filesystem, and you can't unmount /usr, /var, or / 
in multi-user mode, can this be done, or does one have to be at a 
terminal to do it?


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