From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 22 04:12:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA22737 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 04:12:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pillar.elsevier.co.uk (root@pillar.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA22725 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 04:11:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by pillar.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.2/8.8.0) with ESMTP id MAA07685 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:09:01 +0100 (BST) Received: from cadair.elsevier.co.uk by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:11:20 +0100 Received: from tees.elsevier.co.uk (tees.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.60]) by cadair.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.2/8.8.0) with ESMTP id MAA01431; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:11:08 +0100 (BST) Received: (from dpr@localhost) by tees.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.0/8.8.0) id MAA11564; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:10:05 +0100 (BST) To: J Wunsch Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Read-only root partition. [SYSLOG] References: <199610212109.XAA11599@uriah.heep.sax.de> From: Paul Richards Date: 22 Oct 1996 12:10:04 +0100 In-Reply-To: J Wunsch's message of Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:09:20 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <57hgnnl0fn.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.30 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch writes: > /var/run/log, and a symlink to /dev/log to help the transition. > > We might even try convincing the other BSDs of this. > I think this is the way to proceeed. /dev/log shouldn't really be there and rather than work around it in the devfs implementation we should strive to get the "standard" changed to /var/run. A symlink will be fine for backward compatibility (I'm not even sure we should have the symlink one all our own binaries have been changed but document it so people can add it if they have older binaries). -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155