From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 12 21:53:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA12829 for current-outgoing; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 21:53:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.io.org (post.io.org [198.133.36.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA12820; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 21:53:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zap.io.org (taob@zap.io.org [198.133.36.81]) by post.io.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA23221; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 00:51:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 00:53:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao To: Gary Palmer cc: FREEBSD-CURRENT-L Subject: Re: syslogd can't create /dev/log? In-Reply-To: <29820.834563187@palmer.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Gary Palmer wrote: > > Thats the general consensus these days ... we need a symlink from > /dev/log to /var/run/log anyhow, so I think it's being delayed until > after devfs is deployed (with symlink support). That would be good... I like to think of / and /usr as conceptually "read-only" filesystems (/var, /usr/local, /home and /tmp are on separate filesystems), so I didn't anticipate any problems making most of the important directories append-only. -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net) Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"