Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:26:24 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Vallo Kallaste <kalts@estpak.ee> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Christophe Yayon <freebsd@freebsdfr.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /proc ( procfs ) DP2 Message-ID: <20021121212624.GC20196@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20021121134408.GB2151@tiiu.internal> References: <2681.194.3.119.2.1037864179.squirrel@webmail.freebsdfr.org> <20021121081541.GA17074@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20021121134408.GB2151@tiiu.internal>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:44:08PM +0200, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:15:42AM -0800, Kris Kennaway > <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:36:19AM +0100, Christophe Yayon wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > i am new to CURRENT, i have just installed DP2 and i saw that /proc is not > > > mounted... Could i create in fstab and mount it or is it not necessary ? > > > > You could if you like, but it's not necessary for most things (it's > > omitted because it's historically a big security risk). > > The OpenOffice suite crashes at startup without /proc mounted. > OpenOffice docs say that /proc is only needed for initial install > program and does not say it's needed afterwards. Still, it's needed. > Am I missing something? In case it's unavoidable the docs should be > modified. You should probably ask the FreeBSD/OpenOffice developers. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE93U+AWry0BWjoQKURAq2GAJ4tMRFkFHiv9PgWblG8vu3+4+eBIACgr5VX V6XIpNJ4V5cKruAkLL6u1Wg= =nV8+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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