current-users: Re: /var vs. /etc (crontabs, etc): don't let users fill the root

Subject: Re: /var vs. /etc (crontabs, etc): don't let users fill the root
To: John Kohl <jtk@kolvir.blrc.ma.us>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@kuma.web.net>
List: current-users
Date: 03/15/1995 10:27:46

[ On Tue, March 14, 1995 at 18:09:29 (-0500), John Kohl wrote: ]
> Subject: /var vs. /etc (crontabs, etc): don't let users fill the root
>
> In general, I don't want anything that grows over time or is
> user-writable to be on my root file system, crontabs included.

That's a pretty good reason!  I was thinking of somthing like that, but
the thought just wouldn't jell.

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