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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: Read-only root partition. [SYSLOG]
From:       Julian Assange <proff () suburbia ! net>
Date:       1996-10-21 11:49:31
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> On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> > Ok so we've all looked at this before..
> > The main problem to haveing a read-only root filesystem would seem to be 
> > the pipe created by syslog in /dev.
> > 
> > /dev/log is a unix domain socket created when syslogd starts up.
> > 
> > Possible options include..
> 
> What about putting /dev/log into /var/run?  Or another /var/ subdir  for 
> the purposes of unix domain sockets (e.g. /tmp/msql.sock is another 
> candidate)
> 
> Danny
> 

Problem is that all the clients use /dev/log too. The way I get around
this is to just put a symlink in /dev/log and tell syslogd to use
/ftp/dev/log


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