From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 12 12: 2:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A3A437B405 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:02:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #2) id 16ksTP-0000f0-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 20:02:15 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 130B313040 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 21:02:14 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id 276DA2259C; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 21:02:15 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 21:02:15 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HIERARCHY BATTLE: Beat the shit out of the rest! Message-ID: <20020312200215.GB790@raggedclown.net> References: <20020311161604.05a35bc5.johann@broadpark.no> <20020311173458.GA721@hades.hell.gr> <20020312143434.GD1577@raggedclown.net> <35g035a7s5.035@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <35g035a7s5.035@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 11:46:34AM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Cliff Sarginson writes: > > > This way, since you are presumably backing up /home anyway, you can > > always reproduce your local setup when disaster strikes. You can always > > reproduce the /usr/local hierarchy from scratch if it really came to it. > > To make your life easier in the face of this disaster you obviously > > should keep at least a backup of /etc and /usr/local/etc. > > > > Of course what else you backup depends on your situation. The above is > > only a generalisation. > > Right. There are misplaced (?) config files in /var, including > /var/at/at.allow > /var/cron/allow > /var/at/at.deny > /var/cron/deny > > (Anyone know why that shouldn't be PRed (to move to /etc)?) > > And sometimes-valuable databases and log files and more are in /var. > man 7 hier /var/ multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool files Mmm, I have to agree /var is a bit of a junkyard. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message