/opt /tmp /var and Cisco VPN client

[Andrew Oliver]

On May 17, 2008, at 3:24 PM, David Parker wrote:

> The comment was that the installer, if you have a /opt directory,  
> will create /private/opt, cp your existing /opt entries into it, and  
> create a symbolic link for /opt as /private/opt.
>
> I don't have that yet, but I did notice that my var and tmp are  
> links .. "tmp -> private/tmp" and var -> private/var. Same for /etc  
> as etc -> private/etc.
>
> Is this correct for OS X?

Is what correct?

The fact that /var, /tmp and /etc are symlinks to /private/ ? Yes,  
that's always been the case.

The comment that the VPN installer reworks /opt? I have no idea  
whether it does this or not, so I can't tell you if the comment itself  
is correct (as in 'accurate'). /opt isn't standard, but it's not a  
problem, either. I would have issue with some arbitrary installer  
reworking chunks of the filesystem, though, so I wouldn't say it's  
correct (as in 'the right thing to do').

Andrew
:)