apmd and other archs

[Michael Schmitz]

> > > > The info logged to /proc/apm is currently logged to /etc/power/apm. I
> > >
> > > Is this a typo?  Why is status information in /etc?
> >
> > Because it's from pmud, which can't create /proc entries.
>
> Then it should go in /var, I think.  We have standards for this stuff.
> (FSSTND, FHS, Debian policy.)  I might want to mount /etc read-only (and

Granted. pmud was first packaged for LinuxPPC which is rpm based and cares
about FHS about as much as RedHat does. I'll look for a better place to
stick the fifo.

Re: mounting /etc readonly: how do you handle /etc/mtab in that case? :-)

	Michael


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