Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 15:46:58 +1000 (EST) From: proff@suburbia.net To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, terry@lambert.org, sef@kithrup.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: on the subject of changes to -RELEASEs... Message-ID: <19970410054658.5894.qmail@suburbia.net> In-Reply-To: <199704100514.XAA24408@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Apr 9, 97 11:14:11 pm"
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> Heck, even if you don't take notes, it's pretty easy if you know what > you're doing. I upgraded the /etc files on Sean's box in about 15 > minutes, and I've *NEVER* seen his box nor his configuration ever > before. > > Nate The design principals behind /etc are heading in the right direction but seem to lack vision. Jordon, call me an engineering psychopath, but it is my belief that FreeBSD should attempt to adopt a file-system organisation whereby after the system is installed, write access can be removed completely from the root and /usr because any configuration changes do not require modification of any of these partitions. Upgrades, re-installation and protection against trojans then become trivial. -- Prof. Julian Assange |If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people |together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks proff@suburbia.net |and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless proff@gnu.ai.mit.edu |immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint Exupery
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