Veractiy and FreeBSD

Dag-ErlingSmørgrav des at des.no
Thu Nov 6 10:44:22 PST 2003


Kim Needham <kim.needham at rocksoft.com> writes:
> Since FreeBSD 5.x seems to no longer use a mounted proc filesystem but proc
> is mounted on the root device, this check will need to be removed for
> FreeBSD 5.x.

Bollocks.  The only practical difference between procfs in 4.x and 5.x
is that it is not mounted by default in 5.x.

To the original poster, removing PSEUDOFS and PROCFS from the kernel
achieves absolutely nothing, as mount_procfs will simply load the
module.  You need to unmount /proc, remove the corresponding line from
/etc/fstab, and read a book or two about Unix system administration
(Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass, Hein is a good start)

DES
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