From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 23 15:44:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA17268 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 15:44:25 -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 PAA17259 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 15:44:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.8.0/CET-v2.1) with SMTP id WAA18884; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 22:44:07 GMT Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 07:44:07 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: Joerg Wunsch cc: Terry Lambert , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: root only: (was Re: comments on this change please.) In-Reply-To: <199610232120.XAA28160@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 On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > 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. A journey of a thousand steps starts with a single step. Boy, am I getting punchy. I'm signing off. :-) Regards, Mike Hancock