Thanks to Casper Dik, Petri Kallberg, Steve Beuttel, Chris Josephs & Chris Miles, Srinivas Arella they are both the same Casper's re-clarification was: > /var/run is a system private temporary directory which serves as a > repository of system state that isn't volatile but also isn't persistent. > > /tmp is prone to system administrators cleaning up. ========================= Original question: > I'm playing around with Solaris 2.8. I configured 512MB swap, through the > install program. doing a df indicated that I wound up with 512 in swap, and > another 512 in /var/run > > I can't find any docs on this, can anyone explain what's going on? >Received on Tue Jun 5 13:40:55 2001
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