Jails and multicore boxes

2007-11-14 Thread Matt Fioravante
I've heard that things like freebsd jails or solaris zones can still be insecure on multicore boxes because a race condition can occur. I don't know more details about it other than that. Is this true now on freebsd? Also, I have a home server which I'm considering running apache, bind, dhcp,

Installing ports to /usr

2007-11-14 Thread Matt Fioravante
Would there be any negative ramifications to installing ports in /usr instead of /usr/local? Like could they potentially clobber system binaries and other files or is this pretty safe to do? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Installing ports to /usr

2007-11-15 Thread Matt Fioravante
Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Matt Fioravante wrote: Would there be any negative ramifications to installing ports in /usr instead of /usr/local? Like could they potentially clobber system binaries and other files or is this pretty safe to do? I know of a few name

Shared /usr in jails

2008-09-22 Thread Matt Fioravante
I want to implement a number of jails for different services on a single box. Since /usr is the same everywhere I'd like to just mount one copy of it read-only to all the jails and then have them each have their own /usr/local Someone recommended keeping the main system's /usr separate. This