On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:14:28PM +0000, Steve Mynott wrote: > /var is intended for machine specific files (traditionally /usr is > machine common files and often used to exist as an NFS mount). A mail > setup is machine specific and lives on /var.
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-toc.html 3.4 /etc : Host-specific system configuration http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-3.4.html 5. The /var Hierarchy http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-5.html mail: User mailbox files YMMV, Paul
