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Date:      Fri, 1 Jun 2001 12:39:14 +0100
From:      David Taylor <davidt@yadt.co.uk>
To:        Angshuman Dasgupta <angshumand@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problem with chflags
Message-ID:  <20010601123914.A1166@gattaca.yadt.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20010601111527.9002.qmail@web9506.mail.yahoo.com>; from angshumand@yahoo.com on Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 04:15:27 -0700
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10106011248500.9333-100000@carmel.diva.nl> <20010601111527.9002.qmail@web9506.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Fri, 01 Jun 2001, Angshuman Dasgupta wrote:
> I got four replies to the original posting - I'm
> trying to reply to all here...
> I WAS running make installworld in singleuser mode
>=20
> I changed securelevel to 0 in rc.conf and rebooted -
> and it said RAISING kernel securelevel -1 -> 0 !!

Well, 0 is bigger than -1.  That's unrelated to what the securelevel was the
previous boot, which might have said 'raising kernel securelevel -1 -> 2'...

> And after that (as well as before) I tried chflags
> noschg /usr/lib/libscrypt.so.2 and I'm consistently
> getting the same thing : operation not permitted.

If you're in single user mode, you have remembered to mount /usr, and all
the other partitions, rw?  Type 'mount' and make sure it doesn't mention
(read-only).
=20
> is there any way i can check what securelevel the
> kernel is running in? Can anyone tell me why this is
> happening, at securelevel 0? (apparently)

$ sysctl kern.securelevel

will show you the securelevel.

Presumably you are either: not root; or running with a readonly filesystem;
or possibly, the /usr/lib directroy is schg too....

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David Taylor
davidt@yadt.co.uk

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