From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 7 11:57:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from kci.kciLink.com (kci.kciLink.com [204.117.82.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D5F537B423 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 11:57:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [204.117.82.2]) by kci.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 528A0E8D1; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 14:57:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e87IvbK45009; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 14:57:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from khera) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14775.58657.905594.704448@onceler.kciLink.com> Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 14:57:37 -0400 (EDT) To: Paul Herman Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: call for testers: init securelevel patch In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 11) "Carlsbad Caverns" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Your patch does seem to do the right thing for me. Now I can run the system at a securelevel and when I go to single user mode, I can still do necessary system maintenance. The only thing I saw that was a bit unexpected is that when I went to single user mode and typed "reboot" it went back to securelevel 1 before it killed off the remaining processes. Not a big deal, but juse a bit unexpected. I think the only thing to watch for is that process ID 1 cannot be re-used even if init dies and the system magically still keeps running. If pid 1 cannot ever be reassigned, I think it should be a safe patch. In any case, I'm going to use it on my systems even if it doesn't get MFC'd back to -stable (it applied perfectly cleanly.) Thanks! -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 GPG & MIME spoken here http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message