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From: Thomas Gellekum <thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: /usr/tmp not writable in 2.1.5
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 08:49:22 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: mike@NetworX.ie, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199607282020.WAA08592@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Jul 28, 96 10:20:40 pm"
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J Wunsch wrote:
> As Michael Ryan wrote:
> 
> > I find /usr/tmp very useful.  I install with a small
> > root partition (20MB) and then symblink /usr/tmp
> > to /tmp.
> 
> Nobody will hinder you doing this.  However, providing this as the
> default would violate the policy as described in hier(7) (in that it
> requires /usr to be writable).

What about /usr/share/man/cat??

tg