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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