From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 31 9:48:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from firehouse.net (spook.networkoperations.com [209.42.203.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D90B137BB44 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:48:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abc@firehouse.net) Received: (qmail 10714 invoked by uid 100); 31 Mar 2000 17:48:04 -0000 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 12:48:04 -0500 From: Alan Clegg To: J McKitrick Cc: Alan Clegg , Stephen Montgomery-Smith , freebsd-stable Subject: Re: What is needed in /stand Message-ID: <20000331124804.D10520@laptop.firehouse.net> References: <38E4CACD.177A6202@math.missouri.edu> <20000331165915.A21909@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000331124119.B10520@laptop.firehouse.net> <20000331184513.A22797@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="9l24NVCWtSuIVIod" X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000331184513.A22797@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org on Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 06:45:13PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --9l24NVCWtSuIVIod Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Out of the ether, J McKitrick spewed forth the following bitstream: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 12:41:19PM -0500, Alan Clegg wrote: > > > Stupid question: have you symlinked /var and /tmp to /usr? > >=20 > > /tmp should not be linked anywhere off of the root file system. > >=20 > > I'd recommend mounting an MFS or another filesystem on it, but not=20 > > symlinking it. > >=20 > > Too many things use it (and depend on it) being there before /usr is > > mounted (or if /usr is not available). >=20 > Really? I was under the impression that this was OK, and actually > standard procedure these days for simple installations. Yikes. Maybe my gray hairs are starting to show... And come to think about it, that nose & ear hair-trimmer I got for Christmas may be useful after all. =20 But I'd still not do it myself. 8) AlanC --=20 \ Alan B. Clegg Just because I can \ abc@firehouse.net does not mean I will. \ \ --9l24NVCWtSuIVIod Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: OEIYMYRa1iBiOXSj5tlxaa/PjO2oBjTV iQA/AwUBOOTk0/cyv/gweBpYEQL2PQCgpjKCrDqj9Fcs1HuZeJJh4ZbyRzkAn1Fz MOHjJRycimjE8uaj7ISXhVWT =Xqoy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9l24NVCWtSuIVIod-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message