On 08/03/2016 11:37 PM, BRM wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 3, 2016 2:35 PM, Rainer Weikusat 
> <rweiku...@talktalk.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>  > Rowland Penny <rpenny241...@gmail.com> (by way of Rowland Penny 
> <rpenny241...@gmail.com>) writes: > > So, a user was complaining over on the 
> Samba mailing list, that the > > Samba wiki page about creating a new AD DC 
> wasn't much use with fedora. > > I set up fedora 24 and tried to give it a 
> fixed ip (part of which was> > removing networkmanager), set everything up 
> and rebooted, I then found > > I couldn't connect to the network, checks 
> found that /etc/resolv.conf > > had disappeared. > > When I tried to create a 
> new one, I couldn't, it wouldn't let me!! > > A quick trawl of the internet 
> led to an interesting fact, systemd now > > mounts /etc read-only and if 
> /etc/resolv.conf doesn't exist, systemd > > creates a dangling symlink. 
>  > > You couldn't make this up, why O why make /etc read only ????? > My 
> guess would be: Because people aren't supposed to change the 'legacy > 
> configuration' directly but use the proper systemd commands instead. One > 
> could also assume that this is to protect systemd from changes it > couldn't 
> parse.
> Well, as a software developer that produces software with config files under 
> /etc that is just outright wrong.I went to Linux b/c I have control. If I 
> wanted to give up control, I'd use Windows.
> 
> Ben
>    

You could put your config files in /boot/efi, which is mounted rw.

-fsr


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