Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 21:02:15 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HIERARCHY BATTLE: Beat the shit out of the rest! Message-ID: <20020312200215.GB790@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <35g035a7s5.035@localhost.localdomain> References: <20020311161604.05a35bc5.johann@broadpark.no> <20020311173458.GA721@hades.hell.gr> <20020312143434.GD1577@raggedclown.net> <35g035a7s5.035@localhost.localdomain>
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On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 11:46:34AM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> writes:
>
> > This way, since you are presumably backing up /home anyway, you can
> > always reproduce your local setup when disaster strikes. You can always
> > reproduce the /usr/local hierarchy from scratch if it really came to it.
> > To make your life easier in the face of this disaster you obviously
> > should keep at least a backup of /etc and /usr/local/etc.
> >
> > Of course what else you backup depends on your situation. The above is
> > only a generalisation.
>
> Right. There are misplaced (?) config files in /var, including
> /var/at/at.allow
> /var/cron/allow
> /var/at/at.deny
> /var/cron/deny
>
> (Anyone know why that shouldn't be PRed (to move to /etc)?)
>
> And sometimes-valuable databases and log files and more are in /var.
>
man 7 hier
/var/ multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool files
Mmm, I have to agree /var is a bit of a junkyard.
--
Regards
Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>
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