Things to remove from /rescue

John-Mark Gurney gurney_j at efn.org
Thu Jul 17 01:54:31 PDT 2003


Luigi Rizzo wrote this message on Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 01:50 -0700:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 01:43:33AM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> > David O'Brien wrote this message on Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 01:08 -0700:
> > > - ipfw & natd & ipf & ipfs & ipfstat & ipmon & ipnan, why would one needs
> > >   these?  /rescue is to fix a borked /, not replace PicoBSD.
> > 
> > ipfw I can see as useful.  If you have a kernel that defaults to closed,
> > and you need to access the network, then this is a problem.  If we had
> 
> actually, this is trivial to fix:
> 
> 	sysctl net.inet.ip.fw.enable=0

I didn't know about this. :)

My objection to removing it has been removed. :)  I now support removing
ipfw and friends (from /rescue).

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