From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 5 17:42:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA17861 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 17:42:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA17525 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 17:40:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA14945; Wed, 6 May 1998 10:07:20 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980506100720.D14746@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 10:07:20 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: MIKE JENKINS , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Writable /usr? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from MIKE JENKINS on Tue, May 05, 1998 at 12:32:50PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 5 May 1998 at 12:32:50 -0500, MIKE JENKINS wrote: > Don't the /usr/share/man/catX directories belong elsewhere? > Linux correctly puts them in /var following the File System > Standard (FSSTND) now called the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard > (FHS) at http://www.pathname.com/fhs/. /usr/share/man/cat* is the canonical location for the man pages since 4.3BSD Tahoe and System V.4. If you want a read-only /usr, I suppose you could put them elsewhere and add symlinks. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message