From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 7 18:39:18 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60EC716A400 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 18:39:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ceo@l-i-e.com) Received: from o2.hostbaby.com (o2.hostbaby.com [67.139.134.202]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 26E0F13C43E for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 18:39:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ceo@l-i-e.com) Received: (qmail 23541 invoked by uid 98); 7 Jun 2007 18:26:15 -0000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 by o2.hostbaby.com (envelope-from , uid 1013) with qmail-scanner-2.01 (clamdscan: 0.88.7/3376. Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.083224 secs); 07 Jun 2007 18:26:15 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO l-i-e.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Jun 2007 18:26:14 -0000 Received: from 216.230.84.67 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ceo@l-i-e.com) by www.l-i-e.com with HTTP; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 13:26:14 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <34845.216.230.84.67.1181240774.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 13:26:14 -0500 (CDT) From: "Richard Lynch" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: Hostbaby Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: /var/preserve X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ceo@l-i-e.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:39:18 -0000 So, I found it in 'man hier' as "for historical reasons" but just what is /var/preserve and why is it getting cleaned out every day and why am I getting yet another line in a too-long email about it?... I'm also looking at doing something like this: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/h/5238 but wondering if there's something more "official" in ports that's the same idea? Or some way to get periodic to only tell me stuff I *need* to know, instead of telling me every time it cleans the damn toilet. Please cc: me as well -- I'm not really a regular reader... -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?