From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 21 13:26:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB68737B401 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:26:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-146.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E26B643E91 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:26:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E14366E3A; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:26:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 891E3129D; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:26:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:26:24 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Vallo Kallaste Cc: Kris Kennaway , Christophe Yayon , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /proc ( procfs ) DP2 Message-ID: <20021121212624.GC20196@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <2681.194.3.119.2.1037864179.squirrel@webmail.freebsdfr.org> <20021121081541.GA17074@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20021121134408.GB2151@tiiu.internal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021121134408.GB2151@tiiu.internal> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 > wrote: >=20 > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:36:19AM +0100, Christophe Yayon wrote: > > > Hi all, > > >=20 > > > i am new to CURRENT, i have just installed DP2 and i saw that /proc i= s not > > > mounted... Could i create in fstab and mount it or is it not necessar= y ? > >=20 > > You could if you like, but it's not necessary for most things (it's > > omitted because it's historically a big security risk). >=20 > 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 --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE93U+AWry0BWjoQKURAq2GAJ4tMRFkFHiv9PgWblG8vu3+4+eBIACgr5VX V6XIpNJ4V5cKruAkLL6u1Wg= =nV8+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message