Vic,
Why not just point everything back to the /home dir instead of getting
used to things being in /var? Change the config files of the ftp, httpd
servers to point to the /home dir. That's where mine are pointing to. That
or you could make sym-links to point back to those directories.
--
Mark
"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."
Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Vic wrote:
> O yes, same here with the partitions.
>
> I never NEVER trust the upgrade funtion, especially
> when making a bigger jump, I jumped from
> 7.0 to 7.2 and had enough problems as it was,
> however when I figured out how the new system
> ran, things are now beginning to stabilise a little
> bit.
>
> I still have not figured out how to fix the ftp thing,
> I really hate that you have to now put the files in
> /var/ftp that is on the / partition and I don't
> have the room there like I do on /home/ftp
> what a sucky way to change a system,
> but over all I do like 7.2 its not all that
> bad and there is more automatic configging
> for the well supported hardware, one has to just
> pick and choose their hardware carefully.
>
>
>
> On Friday 19 January 2001 11:54 pm, you wrote:
> > I just tried to upgrade to 7.2 and I got a screwed up Linux system.
> > Thank GOD I have my /home partition separate from my / partition. I am
> > just going to do a clean install of Linux-Mandrake 7.2. Anybody else
> > have that problem upgrading? This has happened before when I tried to
> > upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1. No wonder I fear the downloading and
> > installing of the 2.4 kernel.
>
