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Date:      Fri, 22 Nov 2002 22:34:27 +0200
From:      Vallo Kallaste <kalts@estpak.ee>
To:        Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>
Cc:        openoffice@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [kris@obsecurity.org: Re: /proc ( procfs ) DP2]
Message-ID:  <20021122203427.GA4018@tiiu.internal>
In-Reply-To: <20021122170026.GA35853@nevermind.kiev.ua>
References:  <20021122080556.GA1305@tiiu.internal> <20021122170026.GA35853@nevermind.kiev.ua>

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On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 07:00:26PM +0200, Alexandr Kovalenko
<never@nevermind.kiev.ua> wrote:

> > 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:

I have read it several times and the summary is that OO.org _setup_
program will need /proc mounted. Setup program is separate unit as
far as I understand. If I'm mistaken and /proc is always needed for
running OO.org, then documentation should say it clearly. It's
probably unfortunate coincidence, "setup" and "setup program" are
used interchangeably nowadays and this causes confusion. Probably
what's meant is that "OO.org environment needs mounted /proc for
running".

Thanks
-- 

Vallo Kallaste
kalts@estpak.ee

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