Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:44:08 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste <kalts@estpak.ee> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Christophe Yayon <freebsd@freebsdfr.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /proc ( procfs ) DP2 Message-ID: <20021121134408.GB2151@tiiu.internal> In-Reply-To: <20021121081541.GA17074@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <2681.194.3.119.2.1037864179.squirrel@webmail.freebsdfr.org> <20021121081541.GA17074@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:15:42AM -0800, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:36:19AM +0100, Christophe Yayon wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > i am new to CURRENT, i have just installed DP2 and i saw that /proc is not > > mounted... Could i create in fstab and mount it or is it not necessary ? > > You could if you like, but it's not necessary for most things (it's > omitted because it's historically a big security risk). The OpenOffice suite crashes at startup without /proc mounted. OpenOffice docs say that /proc is only needed for initial install program and does not say it's needed afterwards. Still, it's needed. Am I missing something? In case it's unavoidable the docs should be modified. Thanks -- Vallo Kallaste kalts@estpak.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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