From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 23 02:47:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA08789 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 02:47:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA08783 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 02:47:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.8.0/CET-v2.1) with SMTP id JAA13822; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 09:45:26 GMT Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 18:45:25 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: Joerg Wunsch cc: FreeBSD hackers Subject: Re: read only root: (was Re: comments on this change please.) In-Reply-To: <199610222235.AAA20518@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [fixed subject, I haven't slept enough recently] On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > As Michael Hancock wrote: > > > This isnt related to dev, but please move /etc/namedb back to /var/named. > > Hmpf. Nope. There's no universal ``right directory'' for this. If > your machine is a primary server, you want it in /etc, since it's a > configuration file. (/var is usually not included in dump cycles, but > you sure _want_ the original tables to be dumped.) If your machine is > a secondary server, you want it in /var. I think the named config files are variable enough to go into /var and too variable if you want a read-only root. You can come up with other ways to backup important config files sitting in /var, such as mirroring to frequently dumped partitions or ssh'ing the files to a backup server, etc. Regards, Mike Hancock