Re[2]: snooper watchers

[rnayfield () mail iconnet com (Nayfield, Rod)]

     The best thing to do is take the nit support out of the kernel and 
     remove /dev/nit.  Now someone would have to build a new kernel and 
     reboot the machine to replace the nit support.
     
     If you are overly concerned about this, you can set the boot device 
     (in the rom monitor on a sparc) to boot off of some other disk, one 
     that is not bootable or not there.  Then a reboot/fastboot/shutdown 
     -r/etc will not be able to automatically bring the system up.  I don't 
     believe that you can specify boot devices from a unix reboot type 
     command.
     
     Of course this means you have to go to the console each time you want 
     to boot, and you won't get reboots on failures/etc.  
     
     rod
     


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Subject: Re: snooper watchers
Author:  Karl Strickland <karl () bagpuss demon co uk> at Internet
Date:    2/28/95 10:50 PM

     
whats this mean
     
is someone saying rm'ing /dev/nit and hacking mknod out of the kernel is better 
than just taking nit out of the kernel?