From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 15 03:56:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E447C16A4CE for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 03:56:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B3B043D2D for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 03:56:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 6F9AD8565F; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:26:27 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:26:27 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Adam Message-ID: <20041215035627.GD862@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <001d01c4e259$452536d0$0200a8c0@PANASONIULSWMR> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uHXdqxJKu4m6W3Gg" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001d01c4e259$452536d0$0200a8c0@PANASONIULSWMR> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Use /var for storing webpages.. Why??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 03:56:31 -0000 --uHXdqxJKu4m6W3Gg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Single line paragraphs. On Tuesday, 14 December 2004 at 21:50:45 -0600, Adam wrote: > In Greg Lehey's book "The Complete FreeBSD" 4th edition, he says, > "Do not have a separate /var file system unless you have a good idea > how big it should be. A good example might be a web server, where > (contrary to FreeBSD's recommendations) it's a good idea to put the > webpages on the /var file system." p.70 > > Why is it a good idea to put webpages in the /var file system and > not the /usr file system? Because they're not part of the system. Despite the name, /usr is mainly for the operating system. /var is for content that frequently varies. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --uHXdqxJKu4m6W3Gg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBv7XrIubykFB6QiMRAg0XAKCt3q55MuaJFCHKWU9JdztF4bTo2wCfV5v/ jop4/xU42ziDaIDX9GEW25A= =Cv6v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uHXdqxJKu4m6W3Gg--