From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 9:45:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axel.truedestiny.net (b76168.upc-b.chello.nl [212.83.76.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFBC137B416 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:45:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by axel.truedestiny.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC0AC49A24; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:45:44 +0100 (CET) Received: by axel.truedestiny.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3D1F949A23; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:45:42 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:45:42 +0100 From: Axel Scheepers To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Ken Bolingbroke , Gavin Weng , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to replace the new kernel, not recompile. Message-ID: <20011120184541.E87336@mars.thuis> Reply-To: Axel Scheepers References: <002001c17163$be745300$0f01a8c0@testing.local> <20011119204902.A89738@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011119204902.A89738@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 08:49:02PM -0800 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 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 On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 08:49:02PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > To replace the kernel, you need to also use chflags to change the access > > rights on /kernel, like this: > > > > chflags noschg /kernel > > Or, as it's usually and more properly done, 'make installkernel' > > Kris Also keep in mind that whenever you've changed the security level during install this won't work; if so set it back first, saves you a lot of time (well, it did for me a while ago :-) -- Axel Scheepers UNIX System Administrator email: axel@axel.truedestiny.net ascheepers@vianetworks.nl http://axel.truedestiny.net/~axel ------------------------------------------ Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking -- H. L. Mencken ------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message