From owner-freebsd-security Fri Jun 2 13:58:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [209.192.237.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80E2B37B520 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 13:58:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pir@pir.net) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 12xyWf-0004Cf-00 for freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 02 Jun 2000 16:58:41 -0400 Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 16:58:40 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSDDEATH.c.txt (mmap dirty page no check bug) Message-ID: <20000602165840.I3641@pir.net> Reply-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000602132507.00b2bbc0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET on Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 04:50:09PM -0400 X-fish: < X-Copy-On-Listmail: Please do NOT Cc: me on list mail. Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matt Heckaman 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. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message