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From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Java Man)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.arch
Subject: R/O root (was: Jerry Pournelle on UNIX)
Message-ID: <14227@oddjob.UChicago.EDU>
Date: 14 Jan 88 19:54:34 GMT
References: <1495@osiris.UUCP> <2126@haddock.ISC.COM> <1497@osiris.UUCP> <1972@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <22611@hi.unm.edu>
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In article <22611@hi.unm.edu> kurt@hi.unm.edu (Kurt Zeilenga) writes:
) We use symbolic links from /etc to /usr/etc so that root is "static".   Could
) you use them instead of modifying files?

If I were out to set up a r/o root, I'd make a r/o /usr also - there
are even more seldom-modified files there.

In fact, when some disks died around here and I had to turn this
standalone machine into a server quickly, I made a few symlinks and
let the bereaved clients mount my /usr read-only.
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