Re: [GENERAL] Shared memory and FreeBSD's jail()

2005-06-01 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-05-19 12:14:58 -0400: > lister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This was the topic of 20 minutes of conversation in 2 tutorials > > at BSDCan. > > Well, if the BSD people are so concerned about it, why don't they fix > their bleedin' OS? It's inexcusable to have a "jail

Re: [GENERAL] Shared memory and FreeBSD's jail()

2005-05-19 Thread Tom Lane
lister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This was the topic of 20 minutes of conversation in 2 tutorials > at BSDCan. Well, if the BSD people are so concerned about it, why don't they fix their bleedin' OS? It's inexcusable to have a "jail" feature that doesn't cover such a major part of Unix as the

Re: [GENERAL] Shared memory and FreeBSD's jail()

2005-05-19 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 10:49, lister wrote: > Scott Marlowe wrote: > > >On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 09:46, lister wrote: > > > > > >> At the BSDCan tutorial last week on jails (and several other times) > >>there was discussion regarding Postgres's use of system V style > >>shared memory, and an unfortu

Re: [GENERAL] Shared memory and FreeBSD's jail()

2005-05-19 Thread lister
Scott Marlowe wrote: On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 09:46, lister wrote: At the BSDCan tutorial last week on jails (and several other times) there was discussion regarding Postgres's use of system V style shared memory, and an unfortunate side effect of making jail() less secure. Specifically, to allow P

Re: [GENERAL] Shared memory and FreeBSD's jail()

2005-05-19 Thread Tom Lane
lister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At the BSDCan tutorial last week on jails (and several other times) > there was discussion regarding Postgres's use of system V style > shared memory, and an unfortunate side effect of making jail() less > secure. Specifically, to allow Postgres to operate in a

Re: [GENERAL] Shared memory and FreeBSD's jail()

2005-05-19 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 09:46, lister wrote: > At the BSDCan tutorial last week on jails (and several other times) > there was discussion regarding Postgres's use of system V style > shared memory, and an unfortunate side effect of making jail() less > secure. Specifically, to allow Postgres to oper

Re: [GENERAL] Shared memory and FreeBSD's jail()

2005-05-19 Thread Douglas McNaught
lister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At the BSDCan tutorial last week on jails (and several other times) > there was discussion regarding Postgres's use of system V style > shared memory, and an unfortunate side effect of making jail() less > secure. Specifically, to allow Postgres to operate in

[GENERAL] Shared memory and FreeBSD's jail()

2005-05-19 Thread lister
At the BSDCan tutorial last week on jails (and several other times) there was discussion regarding Postgres's use of system V style shared memory, and an unfortunate side effect of making jail() less secure. Specifically, to allow Postgres to operate in a jail()ed environment, the sysctl : jail.sys