From owner-freebsd-openoffice Fri Nov 22 9: 0:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-openoffice@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A104437B406 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:00:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from kurush.osdn.org.ua (external.osdn.org.ua [212.40.34.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 397FC43E3B for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:00:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from never@kurush.osdn.org.ua) Received: from kurush.osdn.org.ua (never@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kurush.osdn.org.ua (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAMH0RTP036093; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 19:00:27 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from never@kurush.osdn.org.ua) Received: (from never@localhost) by kurush.osdn.org.ua (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAMH0RdE036092; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 19:00:27 +0200 (EET) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 19:00:26 +0200 From: Alexandr Kovalenko To: Vallo Kallaste Cc: openoffice@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [kris@obsecurity.org: Re: /proc ( procfs ) DP2] Message-ID: <20021122170026.GA35853@nevermind.kiev.ua> References: <20021122080556.GA1305@tiiu.internal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021122080556.GA1305@tiiu.internal> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-openoffice@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Vallo Kallaste! On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:05:56AM +0200, you wrote: > > > > You could if you like, but it's not necessary for most things (it's > > > > omitted because it's historically a big security risk). > > > > > > The OpenOffice suite crashes at startup without /proc mounted. > > > OpenOffice docs say that /proc is only needed for initial install > > > program and does not say it's needed afterwards. Still, it's needed. > > > Am I missing something? In case it's unavoidable the docs should be > > > modified. > > > > You should probably ask the FreeBSD/OpenOffice developers. > > Basically, how it's supposed to work, with /proc mounted or not? > Mine crashes every time at startup without /proc. /proc is needed to run OpenOffice. Here is sippet from /usr/ports/editors/openoffice/pkg-message 1.2 OO.org installed as package First check if procfs is running. OO.org setup does depend on procfs and does crash without it. This dependency will be removed in future, but at the moment it is needed. Please read the procfs(5) manpage and ensure the the following line is in /etc/fstab: -- NEVE-RIPE, will build world for food Ukrainian FreeBSD User Group http://uafug.org.ua/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-openoffice" in the body of the message