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From: aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin)
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 09:48:22 -0600
In-Reply-To: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
       "Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP" (Jun 25,  9:50am)
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Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP
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On Jun 25,  9:50am, J Wunsch wrote:
> Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP
>
> > > > 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.

union mount (If only it worked!) :-) 

--alan