From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 19 10: 6:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wilderness.dyn.dhs.org (host-209-214-120-48.bna.bellsouth.net [209.214.120.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F24B37B403 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:06:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wilderness.dyn.dhs.org (colossus.cotharyus.net [192.168.1.6]) by wilderness.dyn.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E112293406; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 11:25:17 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3BD05E1E.30206@wilderness.dyn.dhs.org> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:08:46 -0500 From: Drew Sanford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Kirchner Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Enabling softupdates remotely? References: <20011019094612.P85958-100000@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 That's beautiful! Thanks very much, you've saved me quite a road trip. David Kirchner wrote: > On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Drew Sanford wrote: > > >>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? >> > > The way I've done it is by adding the "/sbin/tunefs -n enable foo" lines > just before the set -T line in /etc/rc. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message