From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 6 0:45:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailout11.sul.t-online.com (mailout11.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F17537B405 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 00:45:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from fwd09.sul.t-online.de by mailout11.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 16YNhw-0005cS-03; Wed, 06 Feb 2002 09:45:36 +0100 Received: from pc5.abc (520067998749-0001@[217.233.117.245]) by fmrl09.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 16YNhm-0Ds8yuC; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 09:45:26 +0100 Received: (from nicolas@localhost) by pc5.abc (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g168jGv01468; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 09:45:16 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from list@rachinsky.de) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 09:45:15 +0100 From: Nicolas Rachinsky To: Mike Meyer Cc: Terry Lambert , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Junior Annoying Hacker Task Message-ID: <20020206084515.GA1448@pc5.abc> Mail-Followup-To: Mike Meyer , Terry Lambert , stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020203040623.13CEF407B@i8k.babbleon.org> <5F46C986-16DB-11D6-8CEC-00039359034A@mac.com> <20020202110330.C16801@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3C5BCA46.713B1950@mindspring.com> <20020202145852.6781C407B@i8k.babbleon.org> <3C5CA666.9BC2BC06@mindspring.com> <15452.50112.625066.914576@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15452.50112.625066.914576@guru.mired.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Powered-by: FreeBSD X-Homepage: http://www.rachinsky.de X-PGP-Keyid: C11ABC0E X-PGP-Fingerprint: 19DB 8392 8FE0 814A 7362 EEBD A53B 526A C11A BC0E X-PGP-Key: http://www.rachinsky.de/nicolas/nicolas_rachinsky.asc X-Sender: 520067998749-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 10:59:44PM -0600, * Mike Meyer wrote: > The problem with the registry is not that it's a single place that > tries to control everything. The problem with the registry is that you > have to have a large chunk of the system functioning in order to fix > things in it should it break - which, from what I've seen, happens all > to frequently. Compare this to unix, where all you need is the kernel, > init, sh and ed - and sufficiently clever people may be able to do it > without init. Just being interessted, how are you able to start sh without having init? I tried "set init_path=/bin/sh" in the loader but that didn't work. Another question, / is mounted read-only, how to remount it read-write without having mount? Not that I need it in the moment, but I'm interessted how that would work. Thanks Nicolas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message