From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 24 14:45:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA00531 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 14:45:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from heather.greatbasin.com (heather.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA00526 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 14:45:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from danco (rno-max5-21.gbis.net [207.228.61.85]) by heather.greatbasin.com (8.9.0/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA07996 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 14:45:44 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <000701be2f8d$32edebe0$553de4cf@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: Subject: Moving /var to /usr/var Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 14:31:48 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm a newbie to both Unix and freeBSD, trying to re-install FreeBSD on a new hard drive, and who lent his copy of "Complete FreeBSD" to a friend, hence this question: At the back of the Installing FreeBSD chapter in "Complete FreeBSD" is the command for using tar to move the contents of /var to /usr/var before removing /var and symlinking to /usr/var. I would be most grateful if anyone with a copy of "Complete FreeBSD" handy could send me this info. TIA, and Merry Christmas, --Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message