On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 12:15:32PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Re: mounting /etc readonly: how do you handle /etc/mtab in that case? :-)
Symlink it to /proc/mounts, of course. :) /etc/mtab has always been evil, and not just because it's in the wrong directory. It's about equivalent to the "route" or "ipchains" commands keeping track of what _they_ thought the kernel settings were, and then if you tried to list the routes or firewall rules, they would just cat the file. Yuck. Have fun, Avery
