Stupid man pages

Ed Anselmo Anselmo-Ed at cs.yale.edu
Sat Jun 9 23:56:57 AEST 1990


>>>>> On 8 Jun 90 16:26:56 GMT, scott at nbc1.ge.com (Scott Barman) said:

Scott> In addition to error message, Sun continues to move things around to
Scott> the point they it is getting real annoying.  Like /usr/spool being a
Scott> symlink to /var/spool?  Why not just keep /usr/spool as it has always
Scott> been?  Another one would be to load SunOS 4.* and cd to /usr/lib/uucp
Scott> and not find everything there because THEY decided the configuration
Scott> stuff belongs in /etc/uucp after it has live in /usr/lib/uucp for all
Scott> these

I like having a /usr partition that doesn't grow.  One less partition
to backup.

If you've ever tried sharing /usr/lib/uucp (with config files in
/usr/lib/uucp) across nfs partitions, you end up doing symlink tricks
anyway, so it's just as well that Sun moved the config files to
/etc/uucp.

Most of the old paths still work (/usr/man, /usr/spool, /usr/adm), so
most users don't notice the change.

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Ed Anselmo   anselmo-ed at cs.yale.edu   {harvard,decvax}!yale!anselmo-ed



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