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Date:      Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:44:29 +0100
From:      Harald Servat <redcrash@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Comment on section 24.7.5
Message-ID:  <AANLkTik5WabOHQDtCHgyA%2BH9NjErSfNMSWFUJnaJxpFo@mail.gmail.com>

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Hello,

  today I did my first and successful "update from source" of my FreeBSD
box. However, I'd like to comment you that I found a tricky part when
issuing make installworld because I had my /tmp partition mounted with the
option "noexec". That made make command prevent installing the new system.
When I turned that option off from /etc/fstab and remounted the /tmp
partition, then installworld worked as a charm.

  Could be a nice addition to section 24.7.5 a note with a text like "make
sure that your /tmp partition allows executing programs or /etc/fstab does
not disallow executing programs" ?

Thank you for your work & merry xmas!
-- 
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