Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 00:35:53 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP Message-ID: <199506252235.AAA20083@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9506252148.AA11980@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Jun 25, 95 03:48:27 pm
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As Terry Lambert wrote:
>
> Yeah. Nothing that can't be overwritten should be in /etc.
>
> The sysconfig stuf should go in /var. /var is per machine.
Totally disagreed.
/var is basically crap. /var/spool and /var/crash come to mind.
Nobody is really going to even backup that crap. Our current
filesystem layout allows to go _all_ configuration information from
/etc to fit onto a single standard floppy.
HIER(7) UNIX Reference Manual HIER(7)
NAME
hier - layout of filesystems
...
/etc/ system configuration files and scripts
...
/var/ multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool files
...
I cannot see how sysconfig would fit into ``log, temporary, transient
and spool'' files.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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