Re: partition sharing

["Adam Williams" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Subject: Re: partition sharing
> d'oh!  new mail software doesn't quote right.  anyway...
> wouldn't sharing the /var directory be a little on the iffy side?  i
> should think the /var/log's might not like being accessed by 2 different
> setups.  of course, they'd always run sequentially, never both at once,
> so the logs might just work.

The /var is a little iffy, I'll grant that.  But assuming (and resonably) that
the same printers will be setup on each distro and that the uids/gids are the
same it should work.  You can modify /etc/syslogd.conf to have each distro use
a diffrent set of log files if you don't like the interspersed.  But /var on
most "workstations" isn't very large or complicated so I image one could get it
to work with little trouble.