From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 16 13:12:39 2004 Return-Path: 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 2B8B016A4CE for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:12:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx2.magma.ca (mx2.magma.ca [206.191.0.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3265843D1F for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:12:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ebudd@grokking.org) Received: from in3.magma.ca (in3.magma.ca [206.191.0.249]) by mx2.magma.ca (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i8GDCXHb026212 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:12:34 -0400 Received: from mx1.sohotech.ca (ottawa-hs-64-26-169-251.s-ip.magma.ca [64.26.169.251]) by in3.magma.ca (Magma's Mail Server) with ESMTP id i8GDBvRW025499 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:12:07 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.3] (heinlein.sohotech.ca [192.168.1.3]) (authenticated bits=0) by mx1.sohotech.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i8GDBJcD040372 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:11:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ebudd@grokking.org) Message-ID: <414990F7.3000101@grokking.org> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:11:19 -0400 From: Ed Budd User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040916) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.44 Subject: Re: what are the pros and cons of running in single user? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:12:39 -0000 mailing lists at MacTutor wrote: > I have a machine running 4.10-STABLE that will be a dedicated gateway > with a router/firewall combo and web server plus mysql server (maybe). > What would be the pros and cons of running this system single user? > Processes that run under their own uid, would they be able to run? > > Just curious. Any extra thoughts welcome. > er...doesn't "single user" mode mean no networking? My understanding is that this is really only for maintenance (ie. make installworld, etc.), not regular operations. Perhaps you meant something else or I just haven't had enough caffeine yet... EB