On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 04:45:09PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 23:11, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Munging around with /var/run is unnecessarily complicated, buys us > > _nothing_ but pain, and is probably impossible to do reliably. "/run" > > is a solution that's easy to handle, easy to convert all existing systems > > to, easy to describe, reliable, and easily adaptible for admins who want > > to run their systems differently. > How to implement this? The easiest way is to do nothing. Currently, > ifupdown writes its state files in /etc, which works fine on many > systems. If an individual admin wants to make /etc readonly then > he can do: > mkdir /run /run/network > mv /etc/network/ifstate /run/network/ifstate > ln -s /run/network/ifstate /etc/network/ifstate This ignores the FHS problem with using /etc/network/ifstate at all (in the case of /etc/mtab, it follows the letter of the FHS, but the FHS could stand some improvement here: /etc/mtab is a historical wart). -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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