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Date:      Sun, 25 Jun 1995 09:50:15 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP
Message-ID:  <199506250750.JAA15271@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <28274.804034895@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 25, 95 00:01:35 am

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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > > Well, that's sort of what /etc/sysconfig is eventually supposed to
> > > become.  Then you'd never overwrite the user's sysconfig file and
> > > would, at most, patch it to fold in whatever knobs had been added..
> > 
> > / needs to be mountable read only.  /var/sysconfig (or similar).
> 
> Heh??  What does a read-only root have to do with /etc/sysconfig?

Further, /etc contains the per-host configuration information, so i
don't see a good way to share a common /etc directory between multiple
diskless hosts.  (Boy, we should feel happy that we do have almost
everything in /etc right now.  The only exception is /var/cron/tabs,
and that should be changed.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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