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Re: /etc writeable [was: etc writeable blah]



On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 09:27:58PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 05:30:12 +0100, William Ballard wrote:
> > My bad.  I should have said "what other files in /etc need
> > to be writeable." 
> 
> See http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/readonly-root.html,
> and especially the README files linked from it, for answers.


For what it's worth I settled on this list of files to leave
writeable.  BootCD won't successfully start up unless passwd,
group, and rcS.d are all writeable.

mtab fstab group group- hostname mailname motd network
passwd passwd- resolv.conf rcS.d/ adjtime



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