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Date:      Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:39:50 +1000 (EST)
From:      "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Read-only root partition. [SYSLOG]
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.961021113749.548E-100000@panda.hilink.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <326A99D7.167EB0E7@whistle.com>

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On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Julian Elischer wrote:

> Ok so we've all looked at this before..
> The main problem to haveing a read-only root filesystem would seem to be 
> the pipe created by syslog in /dev.
> 
> /dev/log is a unix domain socket created when syslogd starts up.
> 
> Possible options include..

What about putting /dev/log into /var/run?  Or another /var/ subdir  for 
the purposes of unix domain sockets (e.g. /tmp/msql.sock is another 
candidate)

Danny



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