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Date:      Fri, 08 Jun 2001 13:18:59 +0200
From:      "R.Schmidt" <ra_schmidt@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kernel secure level and vinum
Message-ID:  <3B20B4A3.8F705873@yahoo.com>
References:  <3B20AF38.19F82D23@yahoo.com> <0106081901220C.40498@evilfry.dyndns.org>

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Hi

Exactly what I did, I brought it to securelevel -1 for the make
installworld.

Regards,
R.Schmidt


James Lim wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
>         How did you make world on the firewall box with kernel secure level
> 2? Try bringing it to single user mode and kernel securelevel -1 and
> 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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> 
> --
> Regards,
> James Lim
> http://sg.freebsd.org | http://www.bsd-geeks.org

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