From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 24 08:35:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA28979 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 08:35:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pillar.elsevier.co.uk (root@pillar.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA28972 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 08:35:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by pillar.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.2/8.8.0) with ESMTP id QAA28151 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:32:25 +0100 (BST) Received: from cadair.elsevier.co.uk by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:34:46 +0100 Received: from tees.elsevier.co.uk (tees.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.60]) by cadair.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.2/8.8.0) with ESMTP id QAA29935; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:34:38 +0100 (BST) Received: (from dpr@localhost) by tees.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.2/8.8.0) id QAA20749; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:33:36 +0100 (BST) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Paul Richards , joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD hackers), danny@panda.hilink.com.au (Daniel O'Callaghan) Subject: Re: root only: (was Re: comments on this change please.) References: <13446.846160231@time.cdrom.com> From: Paul Richards Date: 24 Oct 1996 16:33:34 +0100 In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of Thu, 24 Oct 1996 05:30:31 -0700 Message-ID: <57d8y8v0kx.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.30 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > > Jordan, I think a golden opportunity was missed by not putting > > sysconfig into /var from the beginning. > > Hmmm. /var/what? /var/admin /var/config Something along those lines? /etc/ppp and namedb could both go there. /etc could genuinally become a ro area if we wanted it to. It's not a technical problem but a migration problem and a genuine desire to do it. -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155