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Speaking of NFS I have nfs mounted /usr partitions (ro) on a couple of
diskless freebsd machines and was wondering how I can get them to execute
setuid binaries (is this a security feature) and if yes what are the
parameters for executing setuid binaries off nfs.


On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Jaye Mathisen wrote:

> 
> 
> top is showing my gzip in state "newbuf", and it's compressing at a
> monumentally microscopic pace...
> 
> It's on an NFS partition. 
> 
> Normal file access seems OK, but this is not normal.
> 
>