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Date:      Thu, 02 Jan 1997 19:30:31 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        phk@freefall.freebsd.org (Poul-Henning Kamp), CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-etc@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc 
Message-ID:  <16065.852229831@critter.dk.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jan 1997 18:27:17 %2B0100." <199701021727.SAA07984@uriah.heep.sax.de> 

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In message <199701021727.SAA07984@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch writes:
>As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>>   Now that uptimes run into months on a regular basis, I often find myself
>>   wondering what the hw-config of a machine is, and the logs have been
>>   rotated many times since reboot already.
>>   
>>   Added:
>>   	/sbin/dmesg > /var/tmp/dmesg.boot
>>   to /etc/rc
>
>/var/tmp ain't good.  For sites that auto-clean temp directories,
>files there will be removed even before the log files vanish.  I'd
>suggest /var/run, most files there have a projected lifetime of one
>boot cycle.

OK, peter said so too, will change.

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