On 21 Jun, Xin LI wrote: > But ultimately, I think the real design question here that needs to be > solved would probably be "Why are piling up multiple layers of workarounds > around motd? Does it even need to be located in /etc?" The contents is > meant to be updated every time when there is a kernel change, and to that > extent it seems to be more appropriate for /var/run and generated at boot > from a template located somewhere in /etc. The benefit of this approach is > that you would have one less file to merge for each etcupdate/mergemaster > (or at least only need to do it when some customization is made), and there > is no need to worry about write durability.
+1 This is something that has bothered me for a long time. It should be possible to run with a read-only /etc (obviously with some functional limitations). _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
