From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 17 13:38:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inet.chip-web.com (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 473C1157A8 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 13:37:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Received: (qmail 10396 invoked from network); 17 Aug 1999 20:37:50 -0000 Received: from speedy.chip-web.com (HELO speedy) (172.16.1.1) by inet.chip-web.com with SMTP; 17 Aug 1999 20:37:50 -0000 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990817133350.00afdbf0@toy> X-Sender: ludwigp@toy (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 13:35:11 -0700 To: Reinoud Koornstra From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: bug wich crashes freebsd 3.2 Cc: Doug , Reinoud Koornstra , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:20 PM 8/17/1999 +0200, Reinoud Koornstra wrote: >And what if a user forgets to umount it before removing? Users aren't allowed to mount and umount. Only root can. >A whole os cant just hang by a user mistake now can it? No, but it can hang if root makes a mistake. There are all sorts of ways root can hose a system. That's why people recommend that you normally use a user account. --Ludwig Pummer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message