From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040809 Description of problem: When adding new diskless environment system-config-netboot suggests to use 'rsync -a -e ssh CLIENTIP:/ DISKLESSDIR/root'. This does (at least with FC3t1 it did) copy /proc too, which is wrong. I think the suggested command should be 'rsync -a -e ssh --exclude='/proc/*' CLIENTIP:/ DISKLESSDIR/root'. I would like adding a '-v', so the user can have some progress indicator. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-netboot-0.1.3-7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start system-config-netboot 2. add new environment 3. see and test the suggested 'rsync' command Actual Results: In DISKLESSDIR/root you get a copy of /proc too (everything that can be read from there - mem, kernel...). Expected Results: In DISKLESSDIR/root only an empty /proc is needed Additional info: I think the diskless environment should have empty /proc /tmp, /var/tmp and only empty files in /var/log. 'rpm --rebuilddb' and 'rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.00?' are a good addition too (in the diskless environment). When booting the diskless client it complains it can not remove '/var/lib/rpm/__db.00?'. Any remaining files in these directories can be a security problem too.
The same story with /sys: --exclude='/sys/*'.
Fixed in system-config-netboot-0.1.5