From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 28 22:57:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77B6A16A4B3 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 22:57:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from amsfep14-int.chello.nl (amsfep14-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 044B144030 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 22:57:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dodell@sitetronics.com) Received: from sitetronics.com ([213.46.142.207]) by amsfep14-int.chello.nl ESMTP <20030929055743.LAWF27480.amsfep14-int.chello.nl@sitetronics.com>; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 07:57:43 +0200 Message-ID: <3F77C97F.9020506@sitetronics.com> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 07:56:15 +0200 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030820 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bv@wjv.com References: <20030926190215.3525416A4C3@hub.freebsd.org> <20030926203137.GA87408@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <20030926203137.GA87408@wjv.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD patch question X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Security issues [members-only posting] List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 05:57:46 -0000 >>The handbook recommends that one drop into single user mode to >>build the world. While this is certainly best practice, it is >>by no means absolutely necessary. >> >> > >Can you point this out - I've just looke at the handbook >and I do NOT find anything like that in there. I see installworld >in single, but not buildworld. This is from the handbook - note >that it >recomends< installworld in single - though on my remote >machines I've not had that luxury. > > Thanks for the correction. This is, indeed, what I meant to say; my choice of wording was rather poor. --Devon