On Sat, Nov 19, 2011, Carson Chittom wrote: > Thomas de Grivel <tho...@lowh.net> writes: > >> Hi, >> >> From weekly output : >>> Rebuilding whatis databases: >>> /usr/libexec/makewhatis: Can't create /usr/share/man/whatis.db: >> Read-only file system >> >> Should not whatis.db be in /var/... ? >> >> From hier(7) : >>> /usr/ Contains the majority of user utilities and applications. >>> share/ Architecture independent data files. >>> man/ Manual pages. >> >> Is it really a manual page ? > > Shouldn't the index of manual pages be with the manual pages?
Should /etc/passwd be stored in /home instead? I think a readonly (or NFS shared) /usr is supposed to work, so anything that's regularly written should be in /var. That's what /var is for, after all.
