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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: location of uucppublic directory Date: 23 Jun 1996 15:52:20 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4qjp7k$4ds@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4qah8g$454@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> <4qb2qu$5l3@baygull.rtd.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis) wrote: > >What is the motivation behind use of /var? > > /var is for "autocreated" things that tend to be semi-permanent (vs. /tmp) > and take up "significant" space. So, you'll find /var/mail, /var/news, > /var/log, /var/cron, etc. The motivation behind /var was to keep /usr (potentially) read/only. This greatly helps for environments like diskless clients. (It also helps to avoid backing up useless crap. ;) -- 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. ;-)