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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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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:
>=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

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