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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Boll Overgaard <boll+mlmmj@fork.dk>
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 09:37:40 +0000
Subject: Re: splitting configuration from the spool/queue
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On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 11:34:00AM +0200, Mads Martin Joergensen wrote:
> > Well, making the symlinks from /var to /etc would break future
> > introductions of calls to chroot(), so symlinks, if used, should
> > probably be from /etc to /var, and not vice-versa.
>=20
> If the symlinks go from /etc to /var, how can the config files be on a
> read-only mounted filesystem?

Obviously the system would need to be made read-write during configuration
changes. To my knowledge that's not unreasonable for /etc on a production=20
server.

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