From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 10 6:27:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from draenor.org (draenor.org [196.36.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EC6437B4C5 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 06:27:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from marcs by draenor.org with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13uF8O-0002ai-00; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:26:28 +0200 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:26:28 +0200 From: Marc Silver To: Matt Bettinger Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: security level Message-ID: <20001110162628.S6201@draenor.org> References: <71F816A89AA9D3119F4C00D0B7094EFC21F304@FIN_SYN> <71F816A89AA9D3119F4C00D0B7094EFC20626A@FIN_SYN> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <71F816A89AA9D3119F4C00D0B7094EFC20626A@FIN_SYN>; from mattb@finsyn.com on Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 08:22:36AM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there, The reason you can't run X with securelevel 1 is that this level doesn't allow writing to /dev/kmem, which is required by X in order to function properly. You won't need to rebuild your kernel, but you will need to reboot your machine in order to drop from securelevel 1 -> 0. :) Hope this helps... :) Cheers, Marc On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 08:22:36AM -0600, Matt Bettinger wrote: > thank you. > > I am at work now but if you couldplease answer one more question... do you > think that could have something to do with X not firing up? ;-) > > I thought i read somewhere that you can up the security level but in order > to lower it you had torebuild your kernel Maybe i ammistaken. I admit i > haven't read up too much on it i did look at gregs book and the handbook but > didn't see it really mentioned there.. > > Thanks again sir. > > Matt in Texas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message