From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Feb 3 11:23:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AA1137B417 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 11:23:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from user-33qtm5o.dialup.mindspring.com ([199.174.216.184] helo=gohan.cjclark.org) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16XSEv-0003Gl-00; Sun, 03 Feb 2002 11:23:51 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by gohan.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g13JNXE00967; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 11:23:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 11:23:31 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "Daniel B. Hemmerich" Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern.ps_showallprocs workaround Message-ID: <20020203112331.C167@gohan.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <200202031152.GAA26920@webmail3.cac.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200202031152.GAA26920@webmail3.cac.psu.edu>; from dbh142@psu.edu on Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 06:52:00AM -0500 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 06:52:00AM -0500, Daniel B. Hemmerich wrote: > I believe bugs is the correct mailing list to send this sorta issue to. If not, > oh well, too late. > > The goal, I believe, of the sysctl kern.ps_showallprocs variable (setting) is to hide the system processes from the common user, as there is not always a need > to let users have all that information. > > Well, the proc filesystem, procfs, is still wide open with valuable process information for anyone to read. I may just not have found the correct documentation, > but I did not find anyway to really change this w/o me guessing and possibly > messing my workstation up. # umount /proc -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message