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Date:      Fri, 2 Jun 2000 16:58:40 -0400
From:      Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>
To:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSDDEATH.c.txt (mmap dirty page no check bug)
Message-ID:  <20000602165840.I3641@pir.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006021647100.10651-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>; from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET on Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 04:50:09PM -0400
References:  <4.3.2.7.2.20000602132507.00b2bbc0@localhost> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006021647100.10651-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>

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Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> probably said:
> However, I've see alot of people new to FreeBSD get bit HARD by those
> defaults especially in any system that delivers e-mail to /var/mail. The
> default for /var is horribly low, I never did understand that myself. It
> would be nice to say "are you are server or workstation" and then spit out
> some better default variables based on the answer.

It's not unreasonable to expect, in my opinion, that someone who is
installing a "server" know enough to change the defaults.

I've never used the default layouts.

P.

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pir                  pir@pir.net                    pir@net.tufts.edu



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