Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 14:35:42 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/adm use Message-ID: <199605182135.OAA29613@seagull.rtd.com> In-Reply-To: <199605181705.TAA00985@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at May 18, 96 07:05:05 pm
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Greetings! > > 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. :) So, presumably, I shouldn't mess with Project.tmpl to fix ADMDIR but, rather, wait for the XFree86 folks to pick up on this? > 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. An adequate workaround? > > 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. I think they are just error logs (in the case of nas) so I suspect /var/log would be the choice... Thx! --don
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