On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 03:59:04AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Putting R in / spoils the otherwise read-only character of that > directory. *shrug*
No, it's not. Mounting something over a top-level subdirectory does not require / to be writeable. > That is, pretty much everything that runs as a daemon, and that might > have otherwise used /var in general. That's why I'd like to have a check for /run (or /lib/run or whatever) being empty at the end of the boot process, and complain if it isn't (possibly also remounting it r/o so abusers break noisily). Gabor -- --------------------------------------------------------- MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences --------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]