Add documentation about running postmasters in FreeBSD jails (use

separate users).

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
index 20e63bea75d..3c38ff838c7 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
@@ -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>
@@ -764,6 +764,18 @@ options "SEMMNS=240"
        </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">
         OpenBSD</> (see below).