Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 00:10:46 +0200 From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it Cc: julian@whistle.com, henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu, danj@netcom.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 961006-SNAP comments Message-ID: <7186.844899046@verdi.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 9 Oct 1996 20:48:43 %2B0100 (MET)" References: <199610091948.UAA04138@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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> > > user environment), but why /var? With newsyslog doing clean log rotations, var > > > > > theoretically to help run / as a readonly partition > > on NFS systems or such and > > have the 'variable' files on their own partition. > > just theoretically, since a lot of machine dependant stuff is in /etc. I'd actually like to do a readonly /, and it looks to me like it should be possible: 1. Symlink those few variable files that are left, e.g. /etc/ntp.drift and /etc/ssh_random_seed into /var/run. 2. Use DEVFS for the devices. Any reason why this wouldn't work? Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
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