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From: Jeff Jirsa <jjirsa@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
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Subject: Re: bug in pw, freebsd 4.5
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On Thu, 2 May 2002, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:

>
> What do people think of using the external lock file (well, I can't
> actually think of any OTHER way to do it, so...)?  I'm thinking /var/run,
> but on the flipside just putting it in /etc might be cleaner.  Comments?
>

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but /var/run seems like the more
logical answer. Read-only / filesystems would have a hard time creating
temp lock files in /etc. If nothing else, make it something that's
easily configurable to avoid problems with read only filesystems.

- Jeff


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