whatcha got under /var/?

[scoobydope]

after some serious issues with the installation of XFree86 4.0.2 with a wonky Xinstall script that was supplied, i realized alot of the problems i had with the install had to do with the lack of a /var/state directory.

This is a fresh install of Mandrake 7.2, and didn't have a /var/state

so, quick poll:
what distro are you running, and whats under your /var/ tree?

[DavidHaze]

ManDrake 7.2
/var/
cache
catman
db
lib
local
lock
log
mail
nis
opt
preserve
run
spool
tmp
www

[PLBlaze]

:cool: slackware :cool: and my var is around ~500 so i'm not going to list it's contents but this one :


paul@blazebox:~$ ls -l /var/state
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 11 15:00 dhcp/
drwxr-xr-x 2 games games 4096 Jun 7 2000 games/
drwxr-x--- 2 gdm gdm 4096 Feb 25 13:16 gdm/
drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 4096 Dec 19 15:37 xkb/
paul@blazebox:~$

[scoobydope]

ah HA i am not alone then, nobody else seemed to be having these script problems with xfree86, but from the look of it, anyone running mandrake 7.2 is going to be in trouble.

Thanx!

looking into the Xinstall script now, makin a couple draketweaks.

[XxMaCaBrExX]

You know they have Mandrake-specific rpm packages for that, right? ;)

[mjb0314]

I've got Drake 7.2 on my home system (w/o the /var/state directory) and I had no problems installing XFree86 4.0.2 with the Xinstall script. Even got 3d going with my Geforce2 MX card.

Just thought I'd let you know that not all Drake 7.2 users have had a problem installing XFree86 4.0.2.