I've been trying to debug a problem where one laptop's networking, as controlled by wicd, seems to randomly go offline once in awhile. In the process of reviewing 5 machines I ran across an inconsistency across a bunch of my machines, new and old. It seems some of them mount proc in fstab while others do not. Some of these machines have been around for a few years not mounting proc and except for the laptop's networking issues there really haven't been any problems.
Looking at the Gentoo amd64 install guide here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=8 it appears that the recommendation is to mount proc. [QUOTE] /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults,noatime 1 2 /dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 [QUOTE] What would the issues be with proc not mounted? For instance, this machine doesn't mount proc in fstab but still has proc: laptop1 ~ # cat /etc/fstab <SNIP> /dev/sdb1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/sdb4 / ext3 noatime 0 1 /dev/sdb2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro 0 0 shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 laptop1 ~ # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md127 : active (auto-read-only) raid1 sdb3[1] sda3[0] 343758245 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] unused devices: <none> laptop1 ~ # Thanks, Mark
