<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD><META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"><TITLE></TITLE></HEAD> <BODY>  <TABLE width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign="top"> <DIV align="left"> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Off the top of my head var is for data rather than configuration (configuration being specifically to do with technical setup and data being application data). The reason it is a very broad name is because to future proof the structure you need a directory that can have anything that douse not fit in the other directories. Maybe /other would of been a better alternative.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Ben</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">>>> Brett Kirksey <ubuntu-users@valx.mailshell.com> 09/27/04 03:10pm >>></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">On Monday 27 September 2004 at 11:03+0100, Benjamin Edwards wrote:</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">> etcetera</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Thanks for the response. Do you know _why_ it stands for "et cetera"? I mean they could have used "/etc" for the name of the "/var" directory just as easily. Why didn't they name it "/cfg" for config or "/prf" for preferences? The question really is, if "/etc" really means "et cetera", why did they choose such a generic name for a directory in which very specific things go?</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Thanks,</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Brett</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">-- </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">ubuntu-users mailing list</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">______________________________________________________________________</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">For more information please visit <a href="http://www.messagelabs.com/email">http://www.messagelabs.com/email</a> </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">______________________________________________________________________</font></div> <div> </div> <BR> ______________________________________________________________________<BR> This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential. It is for the intended recipient only. If you have received the email in error please notify the author by replying to this email. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not disclose, distribute, copy, print, or rely on this email. Any views expressed by an individual within this email which do not constitute or record professional advice relating to the RNLI, do not necessarily reflect the views of the organisation.<BR> <BR> Registered Charity Number 209603<BR> </DIV> </TD> <TD vAlign="top" align="right" width="160"> <DIV align="right"> <IMG src="http://ce.insight.messagelabs.com/ce10/content/viewer/158759682/166562018/166562019/166562020.gif" alt="Royal National Lifeboat Institution corporate logo" border="0" useMap="#Lifeboats"><map name="Lifeboats"> <area shape="rect" coords="2,1,158,103" href="http://at.insight.messagelabs.com/at10/echo2/to/lists.ubuntu.com/from/rnli.org.uk/redirect_url/http://www.rnli.org.uk/genlogo" target="_blank"> <area shape="rect" coords="2,108,156,163" href="http://at.insight.messagelabs.com/at10/echo2/to/lists.ubuntu.com/from/rnli.org.uk/redirect_url/http://www.rnli.org.uk/gentext" target="_blank"> <area shape="rect" coords="4,313,153,397" href="http://at.insight.messagelabs.com/at10/echo2/to/lists.ubuntu.com/from/rnli.org.uk/redirect_url/http://www.rnli.org.uk/genclick" target="_blank"> </map> </DIV> </TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> <BR> <img src=http://at.insight.messagelabs.com/at10/echo2/to/lists.ubuntu.com/from/rnli.org.uk/ignore? width=1 height=1> </BODY></HTML>