From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 21 5:44:18 2002 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 72B8537B401 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 05:44:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from MX2.estpak.ee (ld3.estpak.ee [194.126.101.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79A0E43E42 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 05:44:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kalts@estpak.ee) Received: from tiiu.internal (80-235-40-232-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.40.232]) by MX2.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE29E735AE; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:43:13 +0200 (EET) Received: from tiiu.internal (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tiiu.internal (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gALDi9w6002248; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:44:09 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from vallo@tiiu.internal) Received: (from vallo@localhost) by tiiu.internal (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gALDi8hJ002247; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:44:08 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from vallo) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:44:08 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Christophe Yayon , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /proc ( procfs ) DP2 Message-ID: <20021121134408.GB2151@tiiu.internal> Reply-To: kalts@estpak.ee References: <2681.194.3.119.2.1037864179.squirrel@webmail.freebsdfr.org> <20021121081541.GA17074@rot13.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021121081541.GA17074@rot13.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i-ja.1 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 On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:15:42AM -0800, Kris Kennaway 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