From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 7 14:50:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71F3B37B401 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 14:50:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from east.ath.cx (catv-50622a7a.nyircatv.broadband.hu [80.98.42.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9E8C43EDC for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 14:50:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from witch@kronos.HomeUnix.com) X-Complaints-To: abuse@kronos.homeunix.com X-SMTP-Authenticated: CRAM-MD5 X-Message-Flag: Ditch the crappy mail client and get a real one! Received: from slave.kronos.homeunix.com (9uykwzqmvtcgqljv@slave.kronos.homeunix.com [10.1.1.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by east.ath.cx (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h07MoDRI017370 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 23:50:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from witch@slave.east.ath.cx) Received: from slave.east.ath.cx (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slave.kronos.homeunix.com (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h07MoD0H043194 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 23:50:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from witch@slave.east.ath.cx) X-Authentication-Warning: slave.east.ath.cx: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] claimed to be slave.east.ath.cx Received: (from witch@localhost) by slave.east.ath.cx (8.12.7/8.12.6/Submit) id h07Mo8DB043103; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 23:50:08 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 23:50:08 +0100 (CET) From: Andrew Prewett Reply-To: Andrew Prewett To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: security vulnerability in dump In-Reply-To: <200301072030.h07KUOBT005310@screech.weirdnoise.com> Message-ID: <20030107233202.Y83991@slave.east.ath.cx> References: <200301072030.h07KUOBT005310@screech.weirdnoise.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Today Ed Hall wrote: > > Today Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > At 2003-01-07T17:35:49Z, Andrew Prewett > writes: > > > > Normally the master.passwd is backed up regularly by cron > (/var/backups), > > > > so maybe no need to backup it again. > > > > > Were you joking? Surely you're not implying that there's no need to copy > > > the data to tape (which is the most common use for dump) since it now > exists > > > in two places on the same hard drive - are you? > > > If /etc and /var are on the same HD, then it's not a production > > machine or the setup is simly wrong. > > Ri-i-ight... So I should add a second HD to every server in the rack, hmmm? > It's standard practice to make /var its own filesystem, but where do you > get the idea that it should be on its own drive? No, "umgekehrt", ideally / should be on a separate drive and /home, /var, /usr on another drive(s). I mean, I wouldn't put my company database, fileserver, etc. on a machine with only one drive. So, my wording was maybe a little hard in the previous post - english is not my first language. -andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message