Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 18:27:17 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: phk@freefall.freebsd.org (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-etc@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc Message-ID: <199701021727.SAA07984@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199701021628.IAA11588@freefall.freebsd.org> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Jan 2, 97 08:28:34 am"
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As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > Now that uptimes run into months on a regular basis, I often find myself > wondering what the hw-config of a machine is, and the logs have been > rotated many times since reboot already. > > Added: > /sbin/dmesg > /var/tmp/dmesg.boot > to /etc/rc /var/tmp ain't good. For sites that auto-clean temp directories, files there will be removed even before the log files vanish. I'd suggest /var/run, most files there have a projected lifetime of one boot cycle. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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