From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 21 14:21:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA13441 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:21:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA13422 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:21:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA03372 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:21:04 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA09524 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:21:04 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.6/8.6.9) id XAA11599 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:09:20 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610212109.XAA11599@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Read-only root partition. [SYSLOG] To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:09:20 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <326A99D7.167EB0E7@whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Oct 20, 96 02:30:00 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Julian Elischer wrote: > 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. /var/run/log, and a symlink to /dev/log to help the transition. We might even try convincing the other BSDs of this. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)