On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:
> "Crist J. Clark" wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:13:12PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > [snip]
>
> It depends. If this is a truly multiuser environment, then
> you are probably getting your authentication from NIX or RADIUS.
>
> It's really arguable that /etc should be a nullfs mount off of
> somewhere else and/or variable information belongs in "var" or
> some other place...
>
> Sun has been able to do this since 1988 or so (at least).
>
As terry knows of course, the Interjet
had the following /etc/symlinks: (excuse linewrap)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 20 Mr 28 2001 crontab@ ->
/writable/system/crontab
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 18 Mr 28 2001 group@ ->
/writable/system/group
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 22 Mr 28 2001 localtime@ ->
/writable/system/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 3 Mr 28 2001 malloc.conf@ -> >>A
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 26 Mr 28 2001 master.passwd@ ->
/writable/system/master.passwd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 19 Mr 28 2001 pwd.db@ ->
/writable/system/pwd.db
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 28 Mr 28 2001 resolv.conf@ ->
/writable/server/dns/resolv.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 31 Mr 28 2001 sendmail.cf@ ->
/writable/mail/sendmail/sendmail.cf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 20 Mr 28 2001 spwd.db@ ->
/writable/system/spwd.db
the single root+usr partition is mounted read-only.
> -- Terry
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