On 2011-12-19, Rudolf Leitgeb <rudolf.leit...@gmx.at> wrote: > Am Montag, 19. Dezember 2011, 13:52:40 schrieb Henning Brauer: >> gotta compromise for crippled systems. solvable with a little shell >> script run from cron and rc.shutdown. > > Wait: your solution would be to periodically remount some volume > read/write, merge the changes and then drop back to ro ? You aren't > serious, are you?
mount -uw /, edit edit edit, mount -ur /. I do this all sorts of places, have done for 10+ years, it works well. I still setup serial console wherever I can possibly get it though - if I have a crashing kernel I want to be able to reach ddb. If I break routing/IP addressing or miss a necessary syntax change, I want to be able to fix it. >> I don't buy the "countless" at all, we're really only talking embedded >> here, and for embedded style use cases you'll have to adopt. that is >> the "special" case and not the norm. > > Embedded systems with configurable settings are a "special case"? > Where were you during the last 10 years? Embedded is a special case for a general-purpose OS. How many manufacturers of these devices would even consider using standard system startup scripts?
