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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