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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 01:06:57PM +0200 I heard the voice of
Danny Braniss, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> in /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist, change

Yah, but you have to remember and maintain that across upgrades.  In
rc.local, it's set-and-forget.


> see also /etc/rc.d/var

That hack landed and was near-forgotten in rc.local a *LONG* time
before there was a rc.d   ;)


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