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On Tue, 27 Jun 1995, Robert Watson wrote:

> With all due respect..  /var/mail and /var/spool/uucp (or such) are not 
> crap ;).  Next time you do an upgrade on an internet service providers 
> mail mail server, you'll hear that /var/mail is not crap ;).  My 
> objection to sysconfig on var, however, is that quite a few people mount 
> /var from its own file system -- /etc is always on the root file system 
> so fsab is accessibl (not to mention all the bootup info ;).  

  Yes, especially for large e-mail servers, having a separate /var 
partition is must.

Tom