From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 11 11:51:29 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9230037B405 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:51:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from tensor.xs4all.nl (tensor.xs4all.nl [194.109.160.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 516F943F85 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:51:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dim@xs4all.nl) Received: from kilgore.dim (kilgore.dim [192.168.0.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tensor.xs4all.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9824F5559; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 20:51:22 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 20:51:18 +0100 From: Dimitry Andric X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.63 Beta/6) Business X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <17224613261.20030211205118@xs4all.nl> To: marius@alchemy.franken.de Cc: Alexander Leidinger , current@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Makonnen Subject: Re: named & chroot & rcNG & devfs In-Reply-To: <20030211202917.B36455@newtrinity.zeist.de> References: <20030211185931.0d37ef82.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <20030211202917.B36455@newtrinity.zeist.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2003-02-11 at 20:29:17 marius@alchemy.franken.de wrote: mafd> E.g. /dev/null isn't needed by bind8 at all (also checked with mafd> ktrace), not sure about bind9 though as it uses daemon(3) which mafd> tries to open it. On my 4.7-STABLE box, bind9 uses /dev/null and /dev/random. It probably dups stdin, stdout and stderr to /dev/null at startup, and it obviously uses /dev/random for random data. :) I presume this behaviour will be exactly the same on -CURRENT. Cheers, - -- Dimitry Andric PGP Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~dim/dim.asc Fingerprint: 7AB462D2CE35FC6D42394FCDB05EA30A2E2096A3 Lbh whfg ivbyngrq gur QZPN naq jvyy or cebfrphgrq -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 6.5.8ckt http://www.ipgpp.com/ Comment: http://duncan.gn.apc.org/stoa_cover.htm iQA/AwUBPklGK7BeowouIJajEQLoZgCgh3/Pdz7cpQ2C0uWXSZJuVjObIO0AnjKB pJMDUoSn/QuzG+87MhgarKQg =4qh8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message