From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 25 18:35:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bazooka.unixfreak.org (bazooka.unixfreak.org [63.198.170.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A45B237B71A for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:35:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dima@unixfreak.org) Received: from hornet.unixfreak.org (hornet [63.198.170.140]) by bazooka.unixfreak.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 378D03E09; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:35:23 -0800 (PST) To: Jim Mahood Cc: Kris Kennaway , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't unlink kernel In-Reply-To: ; from jim@mahood.com on "Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:54:29 -0500 (EST)" Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:35:22 -0800 From: Dima Dorfman Message-Id: <20010326023523.378D03E09@bazooka.unixfreak.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim Mahood writes: > On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Dima Dorfman wrote: > + > +Go to the URL above and click on the link, then read the explanation > +of securelevel. You can't unset it without rebooting. If you can, > +it's a bug. > + > > I have, and I understand that I can't unset it -- that would defeat its > purpose. I'm supposed to be able to boot into single-user mode, and it's > supposed to not be set, but I'm not seeing that behavior. I was able to Where did you read this? Once it's set it's set. You can't unset it until the kernel is restarted. If there is a condition under which you can unset it, you have found a bug. Being able to unset it, even in single-user mode, would, as you understood, defeat its purpose. Regards Dima Dorfman dima@unixfreak.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message