Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 20:15:33 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: shelton@sentry.granch.ru, <freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: bin/45906: mergemaster stops when kern.securelevel > 1 Message-ID: <20021202201116.L3546-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <200212020838.gB28cjmh087292@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Synopsis: mergemaster stops when kern.securelevel > 1 > > This is not a bug. The documented way of upgrading from source > includes booting into single-user mode before running mergemaster. > When in single-user mode kern.securelevel hasn't been raised, yet. > You will have no problems then. I disagree that this is not a bug. The emptyness of /var/empty is mainly cosmetic. It has nothing to do with security. The cosmetic part should be implemented using uchg if at all. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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