[clue-tech] removing foot with gunfire.

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Tuesday 19 September 2006 09:21 pm, Collins Richey wrote:
> 7) I really need a good scheme for keeping the actual mysql and
> postgres and oracle databases in a common place, too. Perhaps someone
> would like to contribute an article on that topic. Lots of symlinks, I
> presume. <rant> Why in blazes did unix/linux idiots come up with the
> concept of storing databases under /var along with all the
> self-healing data that belongs in /var </rant>

Where would you put 'em?  I was reading something yesterday about the whole 
filesystem hierarchy,  and all sorts of stuff in there addressed various 
program files and config files,  but not much was said about where you'd 
store your actual _data_,  of which I'm accumulating a fair pile here...

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ablest -- form of life in this section of space,  a critter that can
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