OT: redhat

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Tue Nov 9 09:12:59 PST 2004


On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 06:22:19PM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> If one wants to get -really- technical, configuration and temporary files
> like spools and semaphores should -never- be in /usr/* anything.  As I
> understand it, /usr originally stood for User Serviceable Routine. 

Oh, horsecrap.  :-)

It's short for 'user'.  Kn n Dns jst ddn't lk vwls.

Cheers,
-- jra
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