I am trying to upgrade a running production server with rdist, but some of the files will not update. I am getting messages like:
rdist: server.foo.net:/bin/rcp: Operation not permitted updating: /kernel rdist: server.foo.net:/kernel: Operation not permitted updating: /sbin/init rdist: server.foo.net:/sbin/init: Operation not permitted
These files probably have the system immutable flag set. Make sure you do not have the system security level enabled ("sysctl kern.securelevel" gives -1), then run:
chflags noschg /kernel /bin/rcp /sbin/init
...or "chflags -R noschg /".
-- -Chuck
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