Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:09:20 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Read-only root partition. [SYSLOG] Message-ID: <199610212109.XAA11599@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <326A99D7.167EB0E7@whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Oct 20, 96 02:30:00 pm"
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As Julian Elischer wrote: > The main problem to haveing a read-only root filesystem would seem to be > the pipe created by syslog in /dev. > > /dev/log is a unix domain socket created when syslogd starts up. > > Possible options include.. > > 1/ > adding a symlink to /var/log/syslog_socket. /var/run/log, and a symlink to /dev/log to help the transition. We might even try convincing the other BSDs of this. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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