[Voyage-linux] 'var' directory : I'm very confused

[roberto]

Yiorgos Adamopoulos ha scritto:
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> Roberto wrote:
>> Ok, but what appens to my 'new' logs, after a reboot?
>> in other words: after apt-get install, I copy /var/log/squid to 
>> /ro/var/log/squid. Then I begin to use squid; new logs are written 
>> (for instance) in /var/log/squid/access.log .
> Since you mount rw, create a directory *outside* the /var hierarchym 
> for example /logs/squid and edit squid.conf to direct the logs under 
> this direcotry.  This is the quickest solution.
>
> Voyage is designed to be run on systems that boot from Compact Flash 
> devices and this is the primary reason that it starts with anything on 
> the CF mounted as ro.  This is because "be design" CF cards are built 
> for multiple reads and not that many write operations.
>
Yes, thank you... I will try this solution, too. I guessed that the 
reason for running read-only was to minimize write operations on the CF, 
and this is a good think. I tried the solution suggested by Punky, and 
it works, but on each reboot the old 'access.log' is restored (although 
I changed voyage.conf accordingly to Punky's suggestions). I think that 
another solution may be to copy (through scheduled cron jobs, for 
istance) the contents of /var/log/squid in /ro/var/log/squid: not a 
perfect solution, of course, but this way I could leave the system in RO 
state.