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Add documentation about running postmasters in FreeBSD jails (use
authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Tue, 11 Apr 2006 19:26:42 +0000 (19:26 +0000)
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Tue, 11 Apr 2006 19:26:42 +0000 (19:26 +0000)
separate users).

doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml

index 20e63bea75dbab7cf499699cc925633b87557f7f..3c38ff838c7846af82f40aaa44f0e1ec6f03bf57 100644 (file)
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.366 2006/04/03 23:35:02 tgl Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.367 2006/04/11 19:26:42 momjian Exp $ -->
 
 <chapter Id="runtime">
  <title>Operating System Environment</title>
@@ -763,6 +763,18 @@ options "SEMMNS=240"
         setting <literal>kern.ipc.shm_use_phys</literal>.
        </para>
 
+       <para>
+        If running in FreeBSD jails by enabling <application>sysconf</>'s
+        <literal>security.jail.sysvipc_allowed</>, <application>postmaster</>s
+        running in different jails should be run by different operating system
+        users.  This improves security because it prevents one jail from
+        interfering with shared memory or semaphores in another, and it
+        allows the PostgreSQL IPC cleanup code to function properly.  
+        (In FreeBSD 6.0 and later the IPC cleanup code doesn't properly detect
+        processes in other jails, preventing the running of postmasters on the
+        same port in different jails.)
+       </para>
+
        <para>
         <systemitem class="osname">FreeBSD</> versions before 4.0 work like 
         <systemitem class="osname">NetBSD</> and <systemitem class="osname">