From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 23 18:41:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA27065 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 18:41:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.2.144.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA27057 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 18:41:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA09606; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:40:49 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:40:47 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: Joerg Wunsch cc: FreeBSD hackers Subject: Re: root only: (was Re: comments on this change please.) In-Reply-To: <199610232302.BAA29130@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 Thu, 24 Oct 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > As Michael Hancock wrote: > > > > Regardless how many asterisks you put in there, you already lose. > > > There are tons of local config files in and under /etc. > I don't know of other people's opinions (apart from Terry, but i knew > this before, so it's not really news to me), but i'm rather satisfied > with having all my local configuration inside /etc. (/var/cron/tabs > is also a link into /etc for me.) The entire /etc directory nicely > fits even onto a floppy, and it basically saves my entire machine > configuration. I had a crash which removed /kernel and turned /etc into a file. Made booting somewhat awkward. I would have really appreciated a read-only / filesystem then. I'd like to see changing config data live on a separate partition. While most things in /etc don't change often, things like passwords change at unpredictable times. Danny