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Date:      Fri, 8 Jun 2001 19:01:22 +0800
From:      James Lim <evilfry@sg.freebsd.org>
To:        "R.Schmidt" <ra_schmidt@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kernel secure level and vinum
Message-ID:  <0106081901220C.40498@evilfry.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <3B20AF38.19F82D23@yahoo.com>
References:  <3B20AF38.19F82D23@yahoo.com>

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Hi there,

=09How did you make world on the firewall box with kernel secure level=20
2? Try bringing it to single user mode and kernel securelevel -1 and=20
try make world and the usual procedure again.



On the last episode Friday 08 June 2001 18:55, R.Schmidt wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm using vinum on 2 boxes for mirroring since Stable 4.1. One
> system is a firewall, the kernel secure level is 2, the other one
> is an internal system running at secure level -1. Nearly 2 weeks
> ago I source upgraded both machines to 4.3-Stable. Vinum can be
> loaded and everything seems to work properly, except I'm unable to
> execute the vinum command on the box running at secure level 2, the
> following error message is issued: Can't open /dev/vinum/Control:
> Operation not permitted
> There might be a good reason not to allow the execution of the
> vinum command on a more secured host. Basically I used the output
> of 'vinum list' in a simple cron check script to give some
> notification if disks/volumes/plexes failed. This is probably even
> not the best way to perform such a check, but was simple and it
> worked. Any other ideas how to get status information from vinum or
> how to correct this permission problem(not by lowering the secure
> level)? I don't need to be able to alter the vinum configuration at
> secure level 2, I only need the status information.
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Regards,
> R.Schmidt
>
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--=20
Regards,
James Lim
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