From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 18 13:02:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA17170 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 18 May 1996 13:02:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA17149 for ; Sat, 18 May 1996 13:02:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA02457 for ; Sat, 18 May 1996 22:01:56 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA16902 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 May 1996 22:01:55 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id TAA00985 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 May 1996 19:05:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605181705.TAA00985@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: /usr/adm use To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 19:05:05 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199605181451.HAA05190@seagull.rtd.com> from Don Yuniskis at "May 18, 96 07:51:36 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Don Yuniskis wrote: > X and at least nas appear to expect /usr/adm for log files. /usr/adm is ugly. The /usr filesystem is potentially read/only. (Ok, X11 already broke this for us, but that doesn't mean we should break it all over the place. Perhaps X11R20 will have fixed it and use /var for the junk files, and /etc for the configuration files. :) Most newer SysV's i've seen, and i think Linux as well, use /var/adm for it, some of them keep the legacy symlink for /usr/adm. > Is this use deprecated under BSD derivatives? What would an > appropriate alternative for these be (e.g., /var/log??) Depends on the purpose of the files. /var/log and /var/run are good candidates. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)