From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 11 19:52:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA23592 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 19:52:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ninbsdbox.dyn.ml.org (host77-185.airnet.net [209.64.77.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA23531 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 19:51:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@ninbsdbox.dyn.ml.org) Received: from ninbsdbox.dyn.ml.org (localhost.dyn.ml.org [127.0.0.1]) by ninbsdbox.dyn.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA05577; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 21:51:06 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <34E271A9.BE8A6BFA@ninbsdbox.dyn.ml.org> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 21:51:06 -0600 From: Kris Kirby Reply-To: kris@airnet.net Organization: Absolutely None! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Durham CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: JNOS References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim Durham wrote: > I did try TNOS, and it worked, but it's nasty, wanting to mess with > /etc/passwd and have it's own directory in the root filesystem, so I > passed on that! It does wonders when one gives it is own account. By running TNOS as root, you are inviting trouble. I don't *ever* want a program with the need to open/read/store large files or large numbers of files as root. If it wasn't for the fact that I run netscape out of my own home directory I would worry about it. Do you know what happens to / when netscape seg faults and blows a 10MB file to your rootfs? Space -> Zero. The only handy part about that is that you can place any (downloading) file anywhere. As for TNOS... It should be away from the machine. I like to run TNOS and the OS as two seperate systems, linked by slip. I haven't had any fiddling with system files on the system. It runs in its own happy world. -- Kris Kirby ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message