linprocfs transition
Robert Millan
rmh@debian.org
Sun, 16 Jan 2005 08:26:18 +0100
Hi!
We're switching to Linux-style procfs in kfreebsd-gnu. This means we get
the stuff in procps and psmisc packages we didn't have. It also means that
dpkg's start-stop-daemon now stops daemons reliably. In addition, sysvinit's
killall5 should now really kill everything so no more problems with filesystems
not being unmounted during halt.
For those of you with already existing systems, you just need to:
- Install procps and psmisc (freebsd-utils -11 no longer provides ps, killall
or top)
- Add a /proc entry to fstab. The filesystem name is "linprocfs" and entry
would look like this:
"null /proc linprocfs rw 0 0"
New installations should work unaware of this since crosshurd is now fixed
(1.7.8) to setup procfs for systems that support it.
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