off the top of my head i'd suggest netbooting it with nfs stuff
mounted ro for testing.  that way, if you *do* find a problem, you
haven't wasted a cd.

you may even decide to mount /tmp rw from another machine.

On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 12:26:07PM -0400, Jon Lindgren wrote:
>I finally have a spare sparc to use as a true firewall.  I'm planning to
>burn a CD for this sucker to boot from.  I don't want it to have local 
>mass storage (besides the cd...).
>
>I've been looking around at regular processes which run and require
>temporary files, such as the daily security items, etc...  I figure I can
>knock syslog stuff to a remote machine, I'll be disabling mail and other
>audit scripts (hmmm....), but what about items such as /var/log/wtmp and
>such?
>
>So the 1e6 dollar question is: does anyone have any ideas what other
>subsystems may be affected by having a r/o local filesystem when running
>multiuser?  I've been able to experiment for a few hours or so, but I've
>not run the thing for months yet...
>
>Any ideas, tips, etc... are well appreciated.
>
>-Jon
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