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To: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
cc: Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.net>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>,
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Subject: Re: root only: (was Re: comments on this change please.) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 23 Oct 1996 07:05:59 +0900."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:27:32 -0700
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>On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Julian Assange wrote:
>
>> > please comment.
>> > I'm trying to get a production r/o root system out the door
>> > and we have to get around syslog somehow..
>> > 
>> 
>> Speaking of root only file systems, it would be nice to have a static
>> root file system - that is one that never needs to be modified i.e
>> over-ride hooks for various config files in /usr/local/etc, or a decent
>> union over-ride.
>
>This isnt related to dev, but please move /etc/namedb back to /var/named. 

   Back to /var/named? It was never in /var in BSD.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project