From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 23 12:56:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA06188 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 12:56:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA06172 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 12:56:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA25247 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 21:52:38 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA00586 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 21:52:38 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.6/8.6.9) id VAA26773 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 21:25:04 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610231925.VAA26773@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: read only root: (was Re: comments on this change please.) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 21:25:04 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Michael Hancock at "Oct 23, 96 06:45:25 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Michael Hancock wrote: > I think the named config files are variable enough to go into /var and too > variable if you want a read-only root. The shipped namedb files are non-working samples anyway. So would a commented-out # directory /var/namedb in named.boot make you happy? Sites interested in not bloating /etc with the DNS stuff are then free to move it there. (named.boot itself is probably static enough to always live under /etc.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)