From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 9 16:28:47 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA28051 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 16:28:47 -0700 Received: from cicerone.uunet.ca (cicerone.uunet.ca [142.77.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA28046 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 16:28:44 -0700 Received: from why ([142.77.242.18]) by cicerone.uunet.ca with SMTP id <190322-1>; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 19:10:59 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 19:11:28 -0400 From: Andrew Herdman X-Sender: andrew@why To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: A few questions Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Just a few questions that concern me (perhaps for no reason). 1) Why does the kernal stay at secure level -1. I replaced BSDi 2.0.1 with FreeBSD 2.0.5 and BSDi always defaulted to security of 1 while FreeBSD does not. 2) If i manually set kern.securelevel to 1, XFree86 no longer works complaining about lack of access to /dev/mem. I used XFree86 with BSDi and it worked fine. Anyone have a suggestion? 3) All of the maintenance scripts run fine sending e-mail to root. Problem is, I'm not running them from cron. In fact I have no idea what is starting up these scripts at all. I'd actually prefer not to run them on my home system, but would like to have control over these things. So what starts them???? Thanks.... Andrew