Re: Things to remove from /rescue

From: John Baldwin (jhb_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 07/17/03

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    To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:05:18 -0400

    On Thursday 17 July 2003 04:54 am, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
    > 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).

    I believe that sysctl only affects ipfw, so people using ipfilter might still
    need ipf if ipfilter defaults to block as well. 

    -- 
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
"Power Users Use the Power to Serve!"  -  http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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