From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S9mMX-00022F-9m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:51:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E182EE0B71; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:51:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f181.google.com (mail-we0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88117E0ABE for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:50:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werm13 with SMTP id m13so7492074wer.40 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:50:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=/D+K6TWU2HHhW7VSZ8/dEvENO9ks7JrLuz7ceOcj57E=; b=xdsPsN4hJEFzU/AGv3jx4jCAIa5e57gGCjjGkmR1YFJxu+kq7ZkV5R0hGtS9m6puIL yzB+OlkbppZrEDuVVKXCGpwh6SRgs/nd+H+wxcWf6ZRKj0B0+yJX3a6wuEZyAGCFZcUA FXiYgygQMDYlp+6TsrzQLFJtNQa7UqM2ZwVa6Q6it5Udtu7xSp+5VkusoDIi4S78G4wZ qT8kHL6KZ7p7n2hPuVZbQzGhYt/Hes69rwXw8XZP7YkZvKwgttrdeLqHBWnbdej2I+46 at3l8gvKcw9GHYZ9OaeXgs2UXR5BBUKXA3Svi/up6M2jDy8wBidObihy1BuHQzjMcvFS ANjw== Received: by 10.180.14.73 with SMTP id n9mr23780061wic.16.1332201011617; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:50:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from khamul.example.com (196-215-69-205.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.69.205]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fw5sm29532018wib.0.2012.03.19.16.50.08 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:50:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:49:15 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way! Message-ID: <20120320014915.3c84b7a9@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <20120319233339.22a2598d@digimed.co.uk> References: <709768995.843751.1331957483491.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.com> <4F6444A5.50503@alyf.net> <20120319131701.3ba79187@digimed.co.uk> <20120320010404.3014fd68@khamul.example.com> <20120319233339.22a2598d@digimed.co.uk> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c26d844e-7b56-469c-962b-fd1e3c3630e6 X-Archives-Hash: 61aed4c9ce4a3198162ad2ec6c6bc304 On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:33:39 +0000 Neil Bothwick wrote: > As for making /usr read-only; it is generally only writeable by root > and anyone with the root password could remount rw anyway, so there's > not much point there. I was thinking here more of /usr mounted -t nfs root on nfs client != root on nfs server hence the need for rootsquash. But these days that setup is becoming a niche thing, the last one I saw was in a university lab and I've never actually admined one myself. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com