[CentOS] Re: Planning Mail Server (with low resources)

Wed Dec 7 14:59:31 UTC 2005
Ed Morrison <edward.morrison at gmail.com>

Feizhou wrote:

> Ed Morrison wrote:
>
>> <snip>
>>
>> If possible, get / to the state where it is mounted read only.
>> </snip>
>>
>> Feizhou,
>>
>> If you wouldn't mind, could you expand on this a little...i.e. how 
>> would you set this up?  Consequences for doing so?
>
>
> It really is getting /usr, /var and /tmp out of the way (them tmp 
> directories) and then getting to a state where system wide 
> configuration (/etc) is infrequent. The consequences will be the need 
> to remount / to be writable for any system changes like adding a user 
> or changing a config and then remounting read-only again.
>
> Moving non boot services and their configs off / would help in this 
> regard.
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Awesome.  Is there any documentation you could point me to on this?

Thanks,

Ed