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Re: /run/, resolvconf and read-only root



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On Monday 05 May 2003 13:50, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Thomas Hood
>
> | What is wrong with the reasons given
> | for creating /run/, and what alternative to you favor?
>
> I was taking the sysadmin's point of view.  And from that perspective,
> since I don't need RO /, nor do I think having a few state files in
> /etc is that bad, you are solving a non-problem with something that
> is yet-another-directory-in-/-which-I-don't-need.  (/opt is another)

Statefiles in /etc are problem if you want to put your configuration under 
version control. By no means a power user by the standards of this list, I 
still tried to do that with my home machine's /etc. I settled on tracking 
only a handful of files, because a lot of files change without me editing 
them.

Regards
Jan Schumacher
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