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At 10:12 am 25/10/96, Michael Hancock wrote:
>[...]
>How about /var/etc?
>
>I understand it would take a while to get the X11 dependencies out, but I
>think many people don't put X on dedicated servers.

Nor on dedicated firewall/gateways, for which read-only root would be
*real good*


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