From owner-cvs-all Mon Feb 12 10:24:21 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E554D37B4EC; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:24:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.2/8.9.3) id f1CINTB07769; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:23:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:23:29 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200102121823.f1CINTB07769@earth.backplane.com> To: Peter Wemm Cc: Warner Losh , Robert Watson , Peter Pentchev , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_zone.c vm_zone.h References: <200102121614.f1CGEhU51322@mobile.wemm.org> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :Warner Losh wrote: :> In message Rob : ert Watson writes: :> : appreciated. (this will also make it easier for portable kernel :> : monitoring tools to be written, and allow graphical monitoring tools to :> : run with less privilege). :> :> And generally make for a happier security officer team :-) : :And an unhappier team of people dealing with kernel crashdumps. :-( : :All this sysctl stuff is fine, but dont kill the crashdump reading code! :If -M or -N are specified then use the old way (and require root to be :running it). Without -M or -N, use sysctl. : :Cheers, :-Peter :-- :Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au You don't need root to use -M and -N, you only need to be able to access the dump files. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message