Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:40:47 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: root only: (was Re: comments on this change please.) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961024105942.548X-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199610232302.BAA29130@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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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
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