Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 11:35:19 -0400 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Andrew Herdman <andrew@whine.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: A few questions Message-ID: <9510101535.AA10002@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951009190533.216B-100000@why> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951009190533.216B-100000@why>
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<<On Mon, 9 Oct 1995 19:11:28 -0400, Andrew Herdman <andrew@whine.com> said:
> 1) Why does the kernal stay at secure level -1. I replaced BSDi 2.0.1
> with FreeBSD 2.0.5 and BSDi always defaulted to security of 1 while
> FreeBSD does not.
Because FreeBSD is a system undergoing continuous development, and it
is unacceptable for the developers to have to shut down to single-user
just to install new binaries. If you wish to have the 4.4-style
automatic securelevel, you should delete the `= -1' initialization in
kern_sysctl.c.
> 2) If i manually set kern.securelevel to 1, XFree86 no longer works
> complaining about lack of access to /dev/mem. I used XFree86
> with BSDi and it worked fine. Anyone have a suggestion?
>From init(8):
1 Secure mode - immutable and append-only flags may not be changed;
disks for mounted filesystems, /dev/mem, and /dev/kmem are read-
only.
X can't write to your video card's memory.
> 3) All of the maintenance scripts run fine sending e-mail to root. Problem
> is, I'm not running them from cron.
Yes you are. root's crontab is in /etc/crontab. Don't attempt to use
the crontab(1) command to modify this, it simply won't work.
-GAWollman
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