"Paul J. Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > thanks for the response. it seems like quite an undertaking, however > -- a lot more files then i expected. maybe it really isn't a reality > to mount root read-only but a better idea to simply keep it very > regularly backed up. maybe, however, usr can still be mounted > read-only. do you know of any files there which would prohibit this?
I keep /usr mounted read-only, and I remount it read-write before I install a new package. (OK, I remount it read-write _after_ dpkg fails the first time.) Nearly anything writing there is a bug. There a two things I know of: /usr/src/linux needs to be rw. /usr/src should be a different partition or, like I have here, a symlink to /var/src (or /home/src). XFree86 3.3-3 has a bug where it needs to write to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled. This is symlinked to ../../../../../var/lib/xkb here as a temprorary measure. -- Carey Evans <*> http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ kernel: Warning: possible SYN flooding. Sending cookies. kernel: validated probe(100007f, 100007f, 11557, 5010, -1645409555) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .