From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jun 6 10:13:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from aurora.scoop.co.nz (aurora.scoop.co.nz [203.96.152.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CDBB37B575 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 10:13:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@scoop.co.nz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aurora.scoop.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id FAA23139; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 05:12:44 +1200 (NZST) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 05:12:44 +1200 (NZST) From: Andrew McNaughton Reply-To: andrew@scoop.co.nz To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Cc: Peter van Dijk , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSDDEATH.c.txt (mmap dirty page no check bug) In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20000606094636.00cd3ec0@207.227.119.2> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > I agree with Peter about those installing for a server application knowing > what they should do. Any proposed changes to the default settings will be > met with resistance by some. Why not, they can't possibly work for > everyone, so then someone else can complain and so and so forth. I half agree. Given the level of knowledge currently required to set up any server on FreeBSD, changing the partition defaults is going to be inadequate step at best towards the needs of beginner adminstrators. That said, it's a bit of a shame that the ease of setting up standard server configurations does not match the ease of running them. I saw a site on the net once that allowed you to step through several pages of setup configuration options, and at the end you got some sort of downlaodable linux install disk image ready to insert and leave the installation to complete itself, with or without CD at hand. Intall disks with large parts of the configuration encoded on them would allow distribution of ready-made servers for simple installations like routers, mail hosts, dns servers and so forth. Whether existing users of FreeBSD who don't need this care about it's existence I don't know. Sometimes though I wish I could reccomend FreeBSD to a wider range of users for small network administration. -- Andrew McNaughton andrew@squiz.co.nz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message