[97271] in RedHat Linux List
Re: root filesystem read only?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anthony E. Greene)
Mon Nov 2 10:35:09 1998
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 16:32:27 +0100
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From: "Anthony E. Greene" <agreene@pobox.com>
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At 07:15 1998-11-02 -0800, Quinn Coldiron wrote:
>Can the root filesystem be set read only? We are building a firewall,
>and want the system to be on a bootable CD-ROM, so everything is read
>only. The way I understand it is that /var would need to be
>writeable, for the system logs, so we are thinking of putting it in a
>ram drive.
[snip]
WRT logging: You might consider taking advantage of syslog's ability to log
to a remote logging server rather than use a RAM disk. man 5 syslog.conf
Tony
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