Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 19:01:22 +0800 From: James Lim <evilfry@sg.freebsd.org> To: "R.Schmidt" <ra_schmidt@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel secure level and vinum Message-ID: <0106081901220C.40498@evilfry.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <3B20AF38.19F82D23@yahoo.com> References: <3B20AF38.19F82D23@yahoo.com>
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Hi there, =09How did you make world on the firewall box with kernel secure level=20 2? Try bringing it to single user mode and kernel securelevel -1 and=20 try make world and the usual procedure again. On the last episode Friday 08 June 2001 18:55, R.Schmidt wrote: > Hi > > I'm using vinum on 2 boxes for mirroring since Stable 4.1. One > system is a firewall, the kernel secure level is 2, the other one > is an internal system running at secure level -1. Nearly 2 weeks > ago I source upgraded both machines to 4.3-Stable. Vinum can be > loaded and everything seems to work properly, except I'm unable to > execute the vinum command on the box running at secure level 2, the > following error message is issued: Can't open /dev/vinum/Control: > Operation not permitted > There might be a good reason not to allow the execution of the > vinum command on a more secured host. Basically I used the output > of 'vinum list' in a simple cron check script to give some > notification if disks/volumes/plexes failed. This is probably even > not the best way to perform such a check, but was simple and it > worked. Any other ideas how to get status information from vinum or > how to correct this permission problem(not by lowering the secure > level)? I don't need to be able to alter the vinum configuration at > secure level 2, I only need the status information. > > Thanks for your help > > Regards, > R.Schmidt > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --=20 Regards, James Lim http://sg.freebsd.org | http://www.bsd-geeks.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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