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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ac.net!news.cais.net!rtd.com!dgy From: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: location of uucppublic directory Date: 20 Jun 1996 08:41:02 GMT Organization: CICDO Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4qb2qu$5l3@baygull.rtd.com> References: <4qah8g$454@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: seagull.rtd.com In article <4qah8g$454@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> you write: > >In FreeBSD, the uucppublic directory is located at >/var/spool/uucppublic > >In System V, it is located at >/usr/spool/uucppublic > >I thought /usr/spool/uucppublic was a defacto standard. What are BSD users >actually doing? Create a link to /usr/spool/uucppulibc? Otherwise, I have to I think the ports that I've seen are not consistent on this (I just finished UUCP setup/configuration a week or so ago). All work with /var/spool as the hierarchy for uucp. Some create symlinks from /usr/spool/... to their /var/spool/... counterparts. I have been rebuilding everything to NOT have any such symlinks (I don't want to have /usr/spool in my hierarchy at all since other packages might autoconfigure and see it there, etc.) >know which OS the other end is using before I can uucp. I have 3 unix boxes >here at home and 3 more at work. It can get confusing if I am sending from >machines to machines. (sigh) Use the tilde notation to transfer things into the uucppublic directory: uucp foo Remote!~/fudge will copy ./foo to /var/spool/uucppublic/fudge (on a FreeBSD box) or /usr/spool/uucppublic/fudge on SysV, etc. Note that a UUCP setup *could* have ``~'' reference /some/other/file/hierarchy so use of tilde is highly desireable! >What is the motivation behind use of /var? /var is for "autocreated" things that tend to be semi-permanent (vs. /tmp) and take up "significant" space. So, you'll find /var/mail, /var/news, /var/log, /var/cron, etc.