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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:26:00 -0600
From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
Subject: Re: What Happens When /proc is not Mounted in FreeBSD5.4? 
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Kris Kennaway writes:
> As you have found, proc is almost entirely unused in FreeBSD apart
> from one or two debugging facilities, and in fact not recommended on
> multi-user systems because the long history of security
> vulnerabilities.

	Thanks to you and Fabian Keil for your succinct answers.
I took it back off and commented out the line I added to
/etc/fstab so it can be brought back temporarily when needed but
isn't just sitting there waiting for lightning to strike.

Martin McCormick