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Date:      Mon, 16 Jul 2001 12:24:22 +0300
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To:        Alex <alex@bhni.net>
Cc:        Bart Matthaei <bart@xs4nobody.nl>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kern.randompid
Message-ID:  <20010716122422.C1766@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0107160507180.1646-100000@magnetar.blackhatnetworks.com>; from alex@bhni.net on Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 05:08:05AM -0400
References:  <20010712171104.A38121@heresy.xs4nobody.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.32.0107160507180.1646-100000@magnetar.blackhatnetworks.com>

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It does work; read my followup in the thread.  kern.randompid is not
a boolean on/off switch.

G'luck,
Peter

-- 
This sentence claims to be an Epimenides paradox, but it is lying.

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 05:08:05AM -0400, Alex wrote:
> No, it doesn't seem to work on 4.x at all for me.
> 
> -Alex
> 
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Bart Matthaei wrote:
> 
> > Does it work on any other releases ?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Bart
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:07:44PM +0100, rich@rdrose.org wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Any reason why this happens (consistently) on a 4.3-RELEASE machine?
> > >
> > > shrek# sysctl -w kern.randompid=1
> > > kern.randompid: 0 -> 0
> > >
> > > Given that I also have kern.randompid=1 in my /etc/sysctl.con, it should
> > > already be 1.. but it isn't...
> > >
> > > rik

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