On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.comSimetrical%2Bwikilist@gmail.com
wrote:
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
Depends on the machine's securelevel.
Google informs me that securelevel is a BSD feature. Wikimedia uses Linux and Solaris.
Well, Greg's comment wasn't specific to Linux or Solaris. In any case, I don't know about Solaris, but Linux seems to have some sort of CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE and CAP_SYS_RAWIO. I'm sure Solaris has something similar.
It doesn't hurt to have extra copies out there
Certainly not.