From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 25 01:54:19 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA14465 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 25 Jun 1995 01:54:19 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA14455 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 1995 01:54:16 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA04891; Sun, 25 Jun 1995 10:54:14 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA28188 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 25 Jun 1995 10:54:13 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA15271 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 25 Jun 1995 09:50:15 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506250750.JAA15271@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 09:50:15 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <28274.804034895@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 25, 95 00:01:35 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 844 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > Well, that's sort of what /etc/sysconfig is eventually supposed to > > > become. Then you'd never overwrite the user's sysconfig file and > > > would, at most, patch it to fold in whatever knobs had been added.. > > > > / needs to be mountable read only. /var/sysconfig (or similar). > > Heh?? What does a read-only root have to do with /etc/sysconfig? Further, /etc contains the per-host configuration information, so i don't see a good way to share a common /etc directory between multiple diskless hosts. (Boy, we should feel happy that we do have almost everything in /etc right now. The only exception is /var/cron/tabs, and that should be changed.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)