Re: going to securelevel=2 directly from boot

[Matthew Patton <patton@sysnet.net>]

>I want to force my firwall to go secureleve =2 as soon as init tries going
>multi-user. From what I see in init's source, going to level 1 is hard coded
>in. what will conceivably break if I were to instead hard code it to '2'?
>
>Yes, I can use rc.securelevel to do a sysctl() just wondering if I can cut out
>this step.

For the hell of it I mucked with init(). Turns out init.c/multi_user()
doen't get called till right before the login prompt is displayed. This
means securelevel=2 is invoked LATER than it would be if using
/etc/rc.securelevel. Needless to say I switched back to a stock environment.

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