On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Phil wrote: > Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 23:57:37 +0100 (CET) > From: Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Files modified by programs > Resent-Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 23:57:10 +0100 > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, > > Do you think it could be possible to move every file that are modified by > a program and that are now under /etc to /var ? > I'm speaking about /etc/mtab (here for historical reasons), > /etc/network/ifstate, but also /etc nologin or files that are used as > flags. > > All this files make life very hard when you want to have a read-only /etc > (for example mounted from a CDROM or protected by security patches like > LIDS). of course you should have var on a separate partition. > > conf.module has successfully become module.conf. Why won't these changes > succeed too ? apart of tradition? apart of a lot of application breacking? There is a quite logical reason, if you consider what /etc directory should contain, and what those files are about. It is meaningless to put them in a /var/something directory.
Luigi
