Re: How do people remount /usr read-only after apt-get?

2003-10-04 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Malcolm Ferguson wrote: [snip] 2) This makes me wonder why we don't restart affected processes after applying security patches. For instance, today's OpenSSL patch seemed to affect ssh and bind. Well, I had to restart them as part of remount /usr ro. Presumably those processes were still

How do people remount /usr read-only after apt-get?

2003-10-01 Thread Malcolm Ferguson
On a couple of Woody systems I put together recently I followed advice I'd seen that recommended mounting /usr as read-only. I haven't seen a security patch yet that has left me able to remount /usr read-only, which is quite annoying. I've configured a Dpkg Post-Invoke step to remount /usr

Re: /usr Read-only

1999-12-11 Thread Hans Gubitz
My apt.conf said: Post-Invoke {mount -o remount,ro /usr;}. So dselect changed /usr from rw to ro. Thanks. Hans Gubitz On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 07:55:40PM +0100, Hans Gubitz wrote: On potato /usr is told to be a Read-only file system ?! My fstab says: /dev/hda7 /usr ext2 defaults 0 2 --

Re: /usr Read-only

1999-12-10 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, On potato /usr is told to be a Read-only file system ?! My fstab says: /dev/hda7 /usr ext2 defaults 0 2 man mount: defaults Use default options: rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser, and async. So, what's wrong here? Regards, Thomas

/usr Read-only

1999-12-09 Thread Hans Gubitz
On potato /usr is told to be a Read-only file system ?! My fstab says: /dev/hda7 /usr ext2 defaults 0 2 -- Hans Gubitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]