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Julian Elischer  
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 More options Apr 9 2002, 3:37 pm
Newsgroups: fa.freebsd.hackers
From: Julian Elischer <jul...@elischer.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 19:20:51 GMT
Local: Tues, Apr 9 2002 3:20 pm
Subject: Re: Hardlinks...

On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:
> "Crist J. Clark" wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:13:12PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > [snip]

> It depends.  If this is a truly multiuser environment, then
> you are probably getting your authentication from NIX or RADIUS.

> It's really arguable that /etc should be a nullfs mount off of
> somewhere else and/or variable information belongs in "var" or
> some other place...

> Sun has been able to do this since 1988 or so (at least).

As terry knows of course, the Interjet
had the following /etc/symlinks: (excuse linewrap)
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   wheel         20 Mr 28  2001 crontab@ ->
/writable/system/crontab
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   wheel         18 Mr 28  2001 group@ ->
/writable/system/group
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   wheel         22 Mr 28  2001 localtime@ ->
/writable/system/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   wheel          3 Mr 28  2001 malloc.conf@ -> >>A
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   wheel         26 Mr 28  2001 master.passwd@ ->
/writable/system/master.passwd
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   wheel         19 Mr 28  2001 pwd.db@ ->
/writable/system/pwd.db
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   wheel         28 Mr 28  2001 resolv.conf@ ->
/writable/server/dns/resolv.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   wheel         31 Mr 28  2001 sendmail.cf@ ->
/writable/mail/sendmail/sendmail.cf
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   wheel         20 Mr 28  2001 spwd.db@ ->
/writable/system/spwd.db

the single root+usr partition is mounted read-only.

> -- Terry

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