On Fri, 17.04.09 18:38, Chris Adams (cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> said: > > However, no daemon should ever touch files in /etc automatically. That > > NM does that is pretty bad style. Instead resolv.conf should be > > replaced by a symlink to /var and manipulated there. > > /etc is by standard for system configuration files. It is unreasonable > to expect everything that needs to update system configuration to have > to know to remount read-write / (or /etc or whatever). Making a bunch > of symlinks just to repoint configuration files out of the configuration > directory would be stupid. You are overerstimating how much software actually touches /etc. And what you call 'stupid' is pretty common sense everywhere except on Fedora as it seems. You can do it on OpenSUSE: http://en.opensuse.org/How-To_Make_the_root_filesystem_read-only You can do it on Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/ReadonlyRoot You can do it on Gentoo: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Read-only_root_filesystem Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
