Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 14:30:00 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Read-only root partition. [SYSLOG] Message-ID: <326A99D7.167EB0E7@whistle.com>
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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.. 1/ adding a symlink to /var/log/syslog_socket. this has a few problems.. while we can change all our programs to use the new address, and binaries that are old can get there via the symlink, but what about BSDI? (and linux?) can we leave a symlink in /dev permanently? Are we destined to have to support the symlink forever? DEVFS can support symlinks 2/ should devfs support sockets directly? 3/ if the socket already exists in /dev in the r/o filesystem, can not syslogd just use it?
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