Re: Files modified by programs
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, David Nicol wrote:
> Phil wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Do you think it could be possible to move every file that are modified by
> > a program and that are now under /etc to /var ?
> >
> > All this files make life very hard when you want to have a read-only /etc
>
>
> You could have an absolute symbolic link in your read-only /etc to
> a place you know will be read-write, for instance /dev/shm/etc/...
>
This won't work for files that are used as flags (/etc/nologin) or
even files that are modified by a moving them and creating
new ones.
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