* Derek Holzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-01 22:18]: > Either way could work, the ramdisk is a particularly good idea. Unless > the installation is networked, there's not too much need for logfiles in > the classic server or multiuser environment sort of sense. You could > probably also just disable to logging daemon by removing it from the > boot scripts using rc-update (on Gentoo at least, or with another > distro-specific equivalent). I imagine that logging would simply just > fail quietly if the partition were read-only... I mean, what would log > the fact that the logs weren't logging? ;-)
Right, that's a nice point in particular! Thanks for the hints! regards, PP > > best, > d. > > Peter Plessas wrote: > >* Derek Holzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-31 18:47]: > >>So I made sure to mount all my drives read-only, and that everything > >>would start from a script on power-up. Having the whole operating system > >>on a Flash card/USB stick (again, no logging, read-only) is also quite > > > >How do you do that? Do you mount /var/log as ramdisk which gets erased > >at reboot, or do you tell every service/daemon not to log? > > > -- > derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl ::: http://blog.myspace.com/macumbista > ---Oblique Strategy # 184: > "Where is the edge?" _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list