Re: OT: /var on another distro, was: Re: 100% [Waiting for headers]

2012-06-24 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 1:33 AM, Chris Knadle wrote: > > Fedora is interesting in that they use SELinux by default, but I don't > personally like their plans for mandating reboots for certain updates for > Fedora 18.  That's "too much like Windows" for my liking.  I prefer Debian's > restart of se

Re: OT: /var on another distro, was: Re: 100% [Waiting for headers]

2012-06-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 02:33 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > Fedora is interesting in that they use SELinux by default, but I don't > personally like their plans for mandating reboots for certain updates for > Fedora 18. That's "too much like Windows" for my liking. I prefer Debian's > restart of

Re: OT: /var on another distro, was: Re: 100% [Waiting for headers]

2012-06-24 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 12:39 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > OT for Lina's issue, but she mentioned /var. > > Will /var soon or later be changed for most distros, inculding Debian? > > "As of filesystem-2012.6-2 the folders /var/run and /var/lock will be > replaced by symlinks to /run and /run/lock,

Re: OT: /var on another distro, was: Re: 100% [Waiting for headers]

2012-06-23 Thread Chris Knadle
On Sunday, June 24, 2012 01:39:06, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi Chris, > > I usually have at least one Suse, one Debian, one Ubuntu and one Arch > installed, just to get one Linux, that fit to my most important needs. That sounds like it could occasionally be confusing... but also interesting. I've

Re: OT: /var on another distro, was: Re: 100% [Waiting for headers]

2012-06-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 08:05 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > PS: > > The computer age is missing stuff like a "sacrificial anode". For > non-computer hardware there are several tricks to maintain it without > maintaining it, e.g. a "sacrificial anode". I wish there would be a > solution for computer h

Re: OT: /var on another distro, was: Re: 100% [Waiting for headers]

2012-06-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: The computer age is missing stuff like a "sacrificial anode". For non-computer hardware there are several tricks to maintain it without maintaining it, e.g. a "sacrificial anode". I wish there would be a solution for computer hardware and software too. Don't mention backups! FWIW, when I was y

Re: OT: /var on another distro, was: Re: 100% [Waiting for headers]

2012-06-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Chris, I usually have at least one Suse, one Debian, one Ubuntu and one Arch installed, just to get one Linux, that fit to my most important needs. Usually that are Debian or Ubuntu and not Suse or Arch. Perhaps I should replace Suse with Fedora, anyway, it's hard to keep track with all distros

Re: OT: /var on another distro, was: Re: 100% [Waiting for headers]

2012-06-23 Thread Chris Knadle
On Sunday, June 24, 2012 00:39:45, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > OT for Lina's issue, but she mentioned /var. > > I wonder if for Debian there will be some wicked changes too, systemd > seems to be one common change for some distros, IIRC ( ;) ) for Debian > too. There weve several long threads about sys

OT: /var on another distro, was: Re: 100% [Waiting for headers]

2012-06-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
OT for Lina's issue, but she mentioned /var. I wonder if for Debian there will be some wicked changes too, systemd seems to be one common change for some distros, IIRC ( ;) ) for Debian too. Will /var soon or later be changed for most distros, inculding Debian? "As of filesystem-2012.6-2 the fol

Re: OT: /var on another distro, was: Re: 100% [Waiting for headers]

2012-06-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 06:39 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > OT for Lina's issue, but she mentioned /var. > > I wonder if for Debian there will be some wicked changes too, systemd > seems to be one common change for some distros, IIRC ( ;) ) for Debian > too. > > Will /var soon or later be changed fo