On Monday, January 19, 2004, at 03:52 AM, Jani-Matti H�tinen wrote:
On Sunday 18 January 2004 19:56, Ben Munat wrote:
[snip]
Of course, if you mount /usr or / as read-only you have to reboot every time
you install something or change a configuration file. For desktops this might
be a bit unwieldy, but for servers it shouldn't be a huge problem. (Of
course, it means that you'll have to take it down for every security update.)
Actually, you can remount partitions without rebooting to change the read only status to read-write. e.g.
mount -o remount,rw /usr
...or whatever mount you want to change. You can change it back with
mount -o remount,ro /usr
This is what I do when I want to upgrade, as my fstab declares /usr as read-only.
- Braden
Besides, what difference would this be from using a Win box? If you change the DNS entries in a 95/98/2k/ME box you have to reboot. XP ain't quite as bad, but not far from it.
Johnny
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