all facilities that previously relied on /proc have been rewritten
to use ptrace(). procfs has presented a substantial security
hazard for years, with several user->root compromises in the last
few years. Procfs will continue to be available but will require
administrator intervention to use.
Reviewed by: scottl, jedgar, mike, tmm
block sizees larger than 8192 bytes have been resolved, as per the
following deltas:
rev 1.34 src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2.c
rev 1.5 src/sys/boot/alpha/boot1/sys.c
filesystem using a block size of 8192. Since this seems unlikely to
be fixed soon (specifically in time for 4.5-RELEASE on the RELENG_4
branch), fall back to the old default block and frag sizes of 8192 and
1024 in sysinstall on the alpha.
Reported by: jhb
to recover its space into the previous partition. Revert 'D'elete
to not attempt to recover any space.
Do not auto-create /home as per release engineers decision (though
I think this is a mistake). However, all of this code will be
replaced later on anyway either with Jordan's stuff or with
some other sort of templater, so it isn't a big deal.
o Move nfs_reserved_port_only out of security profiles (where it was
set somewhat improperly) to the Security options menu directly.
Previously, the variable was set to true for Moderate, but not for
Extreme, which is at best inconsistent.
o Update the Security Profiles help file to remove reference to the
NFS reserved port.
o Note that the kernel currently defaults the sysctl to '0', but
sysinstall has changed it to '1' as a default as of late; however,
rc.conf sets the value to NO as the default. This change brings
them relatively into sync.
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
and pull configSecurityProfile under that menu. Add a menu option
to determine whether LOMAC is enabled at boot. Probably, eventually,
many of the 'Security Profile' menu choices should be pulled out
independently into the Security Menu, so as to make them individually
selectable.
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
The user can still toggle it back off in the label editor (or post-install
for that matter) if they explicitly do not want soft updates to be used
for some reason.
Agreed to be a good thing by: kirk
16384/2048.
Following recent discussions on the -arch mailing list, involving dillon
and mckusick, this change parallels the one made over a decade ago when
the default was bumped up from 4096/512.
This should provide significant performance improvements for most
folks, less significant performance losses for a few folks and
wasted space lost to large fragments for many folks.
For discussion, please see the following thread in the -arch archive:
Subject: Using a larger block size on large filesystems
The discussion ceases to be relevant when the issue of partitioning
schemes is raised.
have a USB mouse. Here's the deal on how this works: USB mouse have
moused run for them automatically by usbd so we don't need to setup moused
for them. We do need to setup moused for other mice though, so if the
user has a USB mouse, we don't need to do anything. Hence the wording
"Do you have a non-USB mouse installed?" for the question. The question
can be reworded as "Do you have a PS/2 or Serial mouse installed?" instead
if that is preferred.
sysinstall will automatically expand the previous partition to take up
the freed up space. So you can 'D'elete /home and /usr will get the
combined space, or you can 'D'elete /tmp and /var will get the combined space.
This gives the user, developer, or lay person a huge amount of flexibility
in constructing partitions from an 'A'uto base. It takes only 3 or 4
keystrokes to achieve virtually any combination of having or not having
a /tmp and/or /home after doing an 'A'uto create.
Change 'A'uto creation of /var/tmp to 'A'uto creation /tmp, which should
be less controversial.
MFC after: 6 days
defaults both in regards to the size of the partitions that are created
and in regards to safety and functional separation.
Still TODO: extend the previous partition to cover a deleted partition
if the previous partiton was auto-created, and supply some sort of
solution for /tmp.
Reviewed by: Just about everyone
Approved by: Nobody except maybe my pet mouse fred
Obtained from: God, so complain to HIM
MFC after: 1 week
1) Use devfs to mount filesystems. If mounting devfs is fail,
fallback to old code.
2) When fscking filesystems, use 'fsck_ffs' explicitly. As a
result, we no longer need 'fsck' the wrapper program.
Reviewed by: jkh
Since userconfig feature is implemented by tweaking variables (hint.*)
with loader(8), we can put back an equivalent feature. Maybe the first
step for this is to commit yokota-san's patch (add userconfig command
for loader).
Approved by: jkh
ethernet controllers. This adds support for the 3Com 3c996-T, the
SysKonnect SK-9D21 and SK-9D41, and the built-in gigE NICs on
Dell PowerEdge 2550 servers. The latter configuration hauls ass:
preliminary measurements show TCP speeds of over 900Mbps using
only normal size frames.
TCP/IP checksum offload, jumbo frames and VLAN tag insertion/stripping
are supported, as well as interrupt moderation.
Still need to fix autonegotiation support for 1000baseSX NICs, but
beyond that, driver is pretty solid.
survive a sysinstall Ctrl-C -> 'Restart'. This fixes another annoying
bug where restarting sysinstall will try to reload kernel modules and
do other external things that have already been done. For now, use
these persistent variables to keep track of module, usbd, and pccardd
initialization.
Bug found by: rwatson
MFC after: 1 week
environment. This fixes an annoying bug where hitting Ctrl-C and
telling sysinstall to 'restart' will do no such thing since many of
the options are still set and so you won't be prompted for them
again.
MFC after: 1 week
variable to check for debug functionality. Previously, you had to set
both 'debug' and 'SYSINSTALL_DEBUG' to get a log of sysinstall's
activities. Now, only 'debug' is necessary.
useful for post install configuration or other cases that might not be
handled by usb.c. (usb.c already sets usbd_enable iff sysinstall
detects usb during install).
PR: bin/18946
Submitted by: Peter van Heusden <pvh@egenetics.com>
Reviewed by: jhb