[Quantian-general] Apache and Samba

[Robert Kopp]

--- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:

> 
> Robert,
> 
> On 22 December 2005 at 21:06, Robert Kopp wrote:
> | My comments may seem somewhat peculiar to those
> more
> | experienced with Quantian (or even Knoppix). I was
> | somewhat surprised that I was able to start
> Apache,
> | but then I navigated to /var/www and discovered
> that I
> | was able to edit index.html as root. I'm sure it
> | didn't get melted into the plastic. What's going
> on?
> 
> Do a 'df' or look at 'ls -l /' and some of the
> subdirectories: Certain
> directories (/etc/, /home, /var, ...) are actually
> copied to the ramdisk and
> linked back. That way you can alter them in the
> running session ... but the
> change will be gone when you reboot again from the
> DVD.
> 
Yes, they're gone. It seems you could do something
like creating a www directory for your Web site in
your home directory; then move the one in var to
www.old and ln -s www /var/www. This wouldn't be
permanent, either, so would require a startup script
to execute automatically. The important thing is that
the www in your home directory would still be there,
even if the script had problems.

I find that the tohd business allows you to use the
DVD drive for other things, even if you have only one
optical drive. But, Quantian is still a read-only file
system. I can see the advantages of installing it in
the conventional manner.

Apparently there is not yet a boot-only CD for
0.7.9.1. Such a disk must have the same kernel as the
installation it boots.

Robert "Tim" Kopp
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