Re: suggestions wanted

["RamKumar" <rrk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

instead of rebooting you can go to single user mode and umount /usr and
remount with rw and install the software.
this may not be a good suggestion but still it works..

ram

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. P. Sriram" <sriram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 5:30 PM
Subject: suggestions wanted


> friends,
>
> i thought it is a good idea to mount /usr read-only so as the enhance
> system security. i have accordinly put /usr on a separate partition on my
> linux box (rhl 7.0). now, however, i am at a loss as to how to install
> software that will put stuff in /usr. i have come up with a kludge by
> which a script edits my /etc/fstab so that /usr is shown an mouting as rw
> and another script changes /etc/fstab back to /usr mouting as ro. i run
> the first script, reboot the machine (so now /usr is available rw),
> install the software, run my second script and reboot the machine to go
> back to my usual setup. this is sort of feeling like windows. surely,
> there must be a better way to do this. any suggestions?
>
> sriram
>
> ps: dont give me the obvious like umount /usr, mount /usr with -rw option.
> it does not work. the umount fails saying file system is busy.
>
>
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