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Date:      Sun, 24 Aug 1997 20:24:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Newbie question: kern.securelevel
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970824202356.27361F-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970814113523.1580L-100000@dylan.visint.co.uk>

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On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Stephen Roome wrote:

> What does "kern.securelevel" actually do, I seem to remember thinking I
> was able to lower it on one machine (probably/hopefully wrong), and was
> wondering what effect it has on anything.

Don't touch that.

It's sort of a holdover from SysV and don't mean a whole lot on FreeBSD.
You'll have to ask hackers@freebsd.org for the full ramifications of
adjusting the kernel securelevel.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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