From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 9 13:16:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA28492 for current-outgoing; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 13:16:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA28484 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 13:16:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id UAA04138; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 20:48:43 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199610091948.UAA04138@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: 961006-SNAP comments To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 20:48:43 +0100 (MET) Cc: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu, danj@netcom.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <325BF3E5.41C67EA6@whistle.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Oct 9, 96 11:49:54 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text 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. just theoretically, since a lot of machine dependant stuff is in /etc. Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================