From owner-freebsd-security Sat Jun 3 2:36:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDEB937B938 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 02:36:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA40378 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 11:35:21 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 11:35:20 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSDDEATH.c.txt (mmap dirty page no check bug) In-Reply-To: <20000602165840.I3641@pir.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Peter Radcliffe wrote: > 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. Which is way too much to assume. > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message