On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Phil wrote: > > > 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 not yet tradition for /etc/network/ifstate, I think. There are few programs concerned. For /etc/mtab, (u)mount is the only program I know that read this file. It seems to me that a very few applications are concerned by these changes, and it also seems to me that these changes are worth doing them, even if it take 2 years.
> 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. Why ? -- Philippe Biondi <pbi@ cartel-info.fr> Cartel Informatique Security Consultant/R&D http://www.cartel-info.fr Phone: +33 1 44 06 97 94 Fax: +33 1 44 06 97 99 PGP KeyID:3D9A43E2 FingerPrint:C40A772533730E39330DC0985EE8FF5F3D9A43E2
