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Date:      Sat, 3 Jun 2000 11:35:20 +0200 (EET)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSDDEATH.c.txt (mmap dirty page no check bug)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000603113451.27346I-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <20000602165840.I3641@pir.net>

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On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Peter Radcliffe wrote:

> 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.

Which is way too much to assume. 

> 
> P.
> 
> -- 
> pir                  pir@pir.net                    pir@net.tufts.edu
> 
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