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From: Chris PeBenito <pebenito@g.o>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Do I need package devfsd?
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:37:22
Message-Id: 1138735199.6859.11.camel@defiant.pebenito.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Do I need package devfsd? by Jean-Pierre Schwickerath
1 On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 13:24 +0100, Jean-Pierre Schwickerath wrote:
2 >
3 > > On a new hardened SELinux system, do I need package: sys-fs/devfsd ?
4 > >
5 > > emerge --depclean doesn't seem to think so. Was curious if this was
6 > > required now that sysfs seems to have started to do everything?
7 >
8 > if you use udev, you don't need devfsd anymore. devfs should not be
9 > selected in the kernel and you should have udev, coldplug and hotplug
10 > installed. Then you can safely unmerge devfsd, I believe.
11
12 In fact, you can't use devfs on SELinux at all, so unmerging devfsd is
13 safe.
14
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