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Date:      Thu, 08 Oct 1998 09:02:08 +0200
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        mike@smith.net.au
Cc:        asami@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CDROM as system disk 
Message-ID:  <29128.907830128@verdi.nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Oct 1998 22:49:35 -0700"
References:  <199810080549.WAA01315@dingo.cdrom.com>

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> > I take it that nobody will object if I move it to /var/run?
> 
> Only everyone that expects it to be in /etc, along with everyones' 
> scripts and all the ports (eg. sshd).

As long as tools like sshd only *check* for /etc/nologin, a symlink to
/var/run/nologin would work just fine. Those parts of the system that
need to *remove* the nologin file would need to be aware of the symlink,
of course.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no

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