Date: 22 Oct 1996 12:10:04 +0100 From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> To: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Read-only root partition. [SYSLOG] Message-ID: <57hgnnl0fn.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> In-Reply-To: J Wunsch's message of Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:09:20 %2B0200 (MET DST) References: <199610212109.XAA11599@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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
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