jan, I agree with what you say about tuning the startup scripts. In my
relatively limited experience as a system admin., I think this is the
'better' thing to do. Perhaps you would agree. My next step is to
understand the kernel security levels and what each one entails. But,
that I can, hopefully, look up.
thanks,
alex
On Sep 16, 2004, at 9:56 AM, Jan Grant wrote:
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Ed Budd wrote:
mailing lists at MacTutor wrote:
I have a machine running 4.10-STABLE that will be a dedicated
gateway with a
router/firewall combo and web server plus mysql server (maybe). What
would
be the pros and cons of running this system single user? Processes
that run
under their own uid, would they be able to run?
Just curious. Any extra thoughts welcome.
er...doesn't "single user" mode mean no networking? My understanding
is that
this is really only for maintenance (ie. make installworld, etc.),
not regular
operations. Perhaps you meant something else or I just haven't had
enough
caffeine yet...
<snip>
So to answer the question: you can certainly tune the scripts and
services available that launch you into multi-user mode to get a
minimum
profile on the machine. However if you modify rc to the extent that it
turns on everything you need in order to set up bridging, run a few
daemons etc then you're effectively duplicating the multiuser startup
anyway.
jan
* modulo securelevel changes which can only be reverted via reboot.
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