From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 9 11:55:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA21431 for current-outgoing; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 11:55:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA21408 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 11:55:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA17827; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 11:52:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <325BF3E5.41C67EA6@whistle.com> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 11:50:13 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Henrich CC: danj@netcom.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 961006-SNAP comments References: <53fcif$t17@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <199610091518.LAA06388@crh.cl.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Charles Henrich wrote: > > > user environment), but why /var? With newsyslog doing clean log rotations, var > theoretically to help run / as a readonly partition on NFS systems or such and have the 'variable' files on their own partition. julian