From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 14 7: 2:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ady.warpnet.ro (ady.warpnet.ro [194.102.224.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39D6A14F6E; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 07:02:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ady@warpnet.ro) Received: from localhost (ady@localhost) by ady.warpnet.ro (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA82346; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 17:07:52 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ady@warpnet.ro) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 17:07:51 +0200 (EET) From: Adrian Penisoara To: Trond Endrestol Cc: FreeBSD stable , FreeBSD current Subject: Re: Making sure /var/tmp/vi.recover exists during reboot In-Reply-To: <1804.947844595@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 11:07:23 +0100, Trond Endrestol wrote: > > > If I want something preserved between reboots, I'll use /var/otmp > > which is the original /var/tmp or my own ~/tmp directory. > > Do whatever grooves your plumes, just don't expect the startup scripts > to be hacked around to support your disregard for the hier(7) manual > page. :-) Like I said, my hack doesn't contradict what hier(7) sais. It's 100% compatible ;-) ! Seriously now, I don't see why you hate so much the ideea of making some (most ?) people's life easier without breaking what's already been set... If it would really break things up then I would agree with you (indeed, the inital proposed chage, symlinking /var/tmp, is just a dirty workaround). > > Ciao, > Sheldon. > Ady (@warpnet.ro) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message