On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > It's best for now to mount root for write and /usr read-only. Under > normal operations I think the files in /etc are only written at > system start-up and shut-down (and during backups) and it might be > possible to have root read-only at other times. The _dates_ in /dev > are changed but the actual files are not except for the case of named > pipes or unix-domain sockets that are created there by some daemons > (lpd?). I think that stuff belongs in /tmp, not /dev.
There are a few other cases. /etc/mtab for example is written whenever mount is used. > I think it's desirable to be able to run with a read-only root, especially > since we are so close to being able to do it now, but it's not my highest > priority. I'd be interested in seeing others work on it. I agree. However, it does cause problems when security is a priority. I'm hoping that the FHS will address this issue. When it is released, we might want to focus on this. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .