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Date:      Wed, 9 Oct 1996 20:48:43 +0100 (MET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu, danj@netcom.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 961006-SNAP comments
Message-ID:  <199610091948.UAA04138@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <325BF3E5.41C67EA6@whistle.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Oct 9, 96 11:49:54 am

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> 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.

just theoretically, since a lot of machine dependant stuff is in /etc.

	Luigi
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