Hi Tia, >When installing s/w, some stuff goes into /var. Many of them temporary and >some not-so-temporary. >What to people do with /var when sharing /usr You're pointing into an open gap in software management here. Although I found that many system programmers do have creative soloutoins for this one (really folks, I was impressed by the skills of our users) I believe that a sophisticated soloution is still missing. My favorite workaround is the following: Do access the shared stuff r+w on one machine and install the software, then use rpm -i --force on the other systems. This causes to rpm writing the parts on the wrieable non-shared filesystem while not aborting becuase of write errors on the read-only shared parts. We aim at solving this in the future...
with kind regards Carsten Otte -- omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
