From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 23 14:27:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA12787 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 14:27:59 -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 OAA12735 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 14:26:20 -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 XAA27663; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 23:22:02 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA02046; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 23:22:01 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.6/8.6.9) id XAA28160; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 23:20:56 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610232120.XAA28160@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: root only: (was Re: comments on this change please.) To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 23:20:56 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199610232030.NAA10328@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Oct 23, 96 01:30:43 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 Terry Lambert wrote: > Actually, if my machine is a primary server, I still want to be able > to mount / read-only. Since /etc is a subdirectory of / and not a > mount point, I*don't*want*any*local*configuration*files*in*/etc. Regardless how many asterisks you put in there, you already lose. There are tons of local config files in and 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. ;-)