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Duncan Findlay writes: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:06:36AM -0500, Thomas Schulz wrote: > > Just checking on various operating systems. /var/lib seems to exist on > > Linux, but not on Solaris, HP-UX or AIX. There is a /var/opt on Solaris > > and HP-UX, but not on AIX. Of course you could always create the /var/lib > > (or /var/opt) directory in the install. > > Right. I'm going by the Filesystem Heirarchy Standard, which is what > many Linux istributions go by. Many other OSs don't, and we would need > to stick this in the appropriate place on other OSs too. Namely, it > should be somewhere where "variable" data goes. I just don't know > where that is. ;-) on virtually all OSes released since 2000, it's somewhere in /var (poss /var/opt). Ancient BSD and pre-SVR4 would use a dir in /etc, so this'd be the final choice. (by the way what does FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD use? they have /var, right?) - --j. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFDob7kMJF5cimLx9ARArOOAKCgUR2bv/x7lgORHYBHF0CKCKJ2sQCgg4JF QJ3eCssGAWhOI5gKxDvRu1I= =xY6x -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
