Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 15:38:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Jirsa <jjirsa@odin.ac.hmc.edu> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: bug in pw, freebsd 4.5 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0205021536030.18912-100000@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020502173110.B22449@over-yonder.net>
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On Thu, 2 May 2002, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > What do people think of using the external lock file (well, I can't > actually think of any OTHER way to do it, so...)? I'm thinking /var/run, > but on the flipside just putting it in /etc might be cleaner. Comments? > Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but /var/run seems like the more logical answer. Read-only / filesystems would have a hard time creating temp lock files in /etc. If nothing else, make it something that's easily configurable to avoid problems with read only filesystems. - Jeff ============== Jeff Jirsa jjirsa@hmc.edu ============== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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