From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 03:31:08 -0800 From: Avery Pennarun To: Michael Schmitz Cc: daenzerm@student.ethz.ch, Michael Schmitz , Hadess , debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: apmd and other archs Message-ID: <20001123033108.B13703@worldvisions.ca> References: <20001123030808.A13371@worldvisions.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from schmitz@zirkon.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de on Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 12:15:32PM +0100 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 12:15:32PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Re: mounting /etc readonly: how do you handle /etc/mtab in that case? :-) Symlink it to /proc/mounts, of course. :) /etc/mtab has always been evil, and not just because it's in the wrong directory. It's about equivalent to the "route" or "ipchains" commands keeping track of what _they_ thought the kernel settings were, and then if you tried to list the routes or firewall rules, they would just cat the file. Yuck. Have fun, Avery ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/