You have the source code, and you can modify it however you want.
[...] The only problem is that if you make modifications, you cannot distribute these changes built-in; they can only be distributed in patch form.
That's actually my point. It's not Open Source, much less Free Software. I've read the license on Sun's Java source code, and it's actually less restrictive than DJB's licenses! If he were admitting that he merely distributes commercially-licensed software for free, I wouldn't be nearly as bitchy about him; but he has a legion of "OPEN SOURCE GOOD!" zombies convinced that, because they can SEE the source code, that his software is really open source.
By the way,/var isn't just for log files. Any data that changes frequently, such as mail and printer spools, also goes there.
Yeah, I know, I was glossing over that detail. Now that I think about it, the Squid cache for the office is the largest single sucker of diskspace on that partition, but the logfiles are second after that. Mail gets pulled onto the individual desktop machines by POP3 every 15 minutes, and I have procmail set to limit the size of incoming messages, so I don't have to worry about/var/spool/mail too much. I just don't have too much going on in/var except the logfiles, which I rotate and archive onto another partition weekly.
64MB is living dangerously IMO.
I'd normally agree (it oughta be about 8 times bigger or so for a safety net), but the locals need everything I can spare for/samba/homes...
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That's actually my point. It's not Open Source, much less Free Software. I've read the license on Sun's Java source code, and it's actually less restrictive than DJB's licenses! If he were admitting that he merely distributes commercially-licensed software for free, I wouldn't be nearly as bitchy about him; but he has a legion of "OPEN SOURCE GOOD!" zombies convinced that, because they can SEE the source code, that his software is really open source.
Yeah, I know, I was glossing over that detail. Now that I think about it, the Squid cache for the office is the largest single sucker of diskspace on that partition, but the logfiles are second after that. Mail gets pulled onto the individual desktop machines by POP3 every 15 minutes, and I have procmail set to limit the size of incoming messages, so I don't have to worry about /var/spool/mail too much. I just don't have too much going on in /var except the logfiles, which I rotate and archive onto another partition weekly.
I'd normally agree (it oughta be about 8 times bigger or so for a safety net), but the locals need everything I can spare for /samba/homes...