Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 19:05:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: /usr/adm use Message-ID: <199605181705.TAA00985@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199605181451.HAA05190@seagull.rtd.com> from Don Yuniskis at "May 18, 96 07:51:36 am"
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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. ;-)
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