From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 14 11:46: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from damnhippie.dyndns.org (12-253-177-2.client.attbi.com [12.253.177.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96E1637B406 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 11:46:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.22.42.2] (peace.hippie.lan [172.22.42.2]) by damnhippie.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4EIk3G38359 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 12:46:03 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org) User-Agent: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 5.01 (1630) Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 12:46:04 -0600 Subject: Re: enable/disable softupdates in rc init idea From: Ian To: freebsd-stable Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20020514143551.A2055@palomine.net> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> I'm talking about those who don't have console access and their system >> was installed without softupdates on. > > I just stick the appropriate tunefs lines at the top of /etc/rc, reboot, and > then take the lines out again. > > Chris > That strikes me as a much more sensible way to handle the problem than the original proposal, considering that enabling is very much a one-shot thing. -- Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message