[fhs-discuss] user-specific directories in /run
Bruno Cornec
Bruno.Cornec at hp.com
Wed May 25 13:12:01 PDT 2011
Hello Ingo,
Ingo Schwarze said on Wed, May 25, 2011 at 08:47:47PM +0200:
> By the way, i don't see /var/lock/ in any of the BSDs,
> only /var/spool/lock/, but that's used exclusively by
> the UUCP subsystem as far as i can tell, or in other words,
> it's mostly obsolete, too.
UUCP is still used by some people (I receive most of my mail and news
that way). Under Linux, the directory used for lock for UUCP is
/var/lock/uucp
And I do have friends still using uucp on *BSD as well ;-)
Bruno.
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