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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!news.mtu.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: latest snap.... Date: 4 Oct 1995 17:51:51 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 75 Message-ID: <44uhjn$64o@helena.MT.net> References: <306fe43b@p0.f58.n5100.z2.fidonet.org> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <306fe43b@p0.f58.n5100.z2.fidonet.org>, Victor Rotanov <Victor_Rotanov@p0.f58.n5100.z2.fidonet.org> wrote: >Hello, All! > >I had those problems with the latest snap (some of these were in previous >versions): > >1) When i tried to install FreeBSD on existing FreeBSD partition with NewFS >turned off, i got message saying "Device busy" when install program tried to >mount partition. Hmm, did you try to install FreeBSD on-top of a running system. >2) IDE CD-ROM support is broken, but isn't commented out in LINT. Fixed. >3) Program Timidity (for playing MIDI files with GUS patches on SB, etc) >sometimes hangs, it didnt hang on 2.0.5 system. Hmm, unsure. >4) getty doesn't restore terminal type (for example, if terminal type was wrong >on /dev/ttyv1, then i can kill proceeses attached to this terminal and i get >wrong login prompt). I think this is now fixed. >5) It is possible to press Ctrl-C during filesystem mount (and possibly in >other places during boot) and get root shell. This is a function of /etc/ttys and the secure flag on the console. >6) It would be good to make mail programs setgroupid, not setuserid. Most programs which can be setgid are, but some programs need to be setuserid. If you have patches to allow mail to work setgid send them in. >7) /mnt directory is rwxr--r-- by default. it should be rwx------. Local choice. >8) it would be good to warn new freebsd sysadmins to mount dos partitions to >/mnt/dos (for example), not to /dos. Local choice, but why? >9) It would be good to make /sbin and /usr/sbin rwx------ and all programs from >there that may be executed by users move to somewhere else and symlink to /sbin >and /usr/sbin. Disagree, local choice. >10) symlinking /var/mail to /var/spool/mail is good for compatibility. Disagree. >11) linux emulator does run not only linux doom as was reported in >documentation :> I tried to run joe, QCrack and some other programs and they >were mostly ok :> It works for others, I'm not sure why it doesn't work for you. Send email to stable@Freebsd.org and see if anyone has any hints that can be added to the docs to make things easier for the next person. Thanks for the feedback, Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. Wanna go fly fishing? I don't charge or home #: (406) 443-7063 | feed you, but I do know the area pretty well.