[Devil-linux-develop] var.tar.bz2 - revisited.

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

Back when I saw Heiko created another file:  /cdrom/config/var.tar.bz2 
I "ass-umed" that we were going to tar up /var along with /etc, save it
to media, and restore them both upon boot.

But I was wrong.  Why would we ever need to save /var?  All it has is
log files, run files, and stuff we don't need to save between reboots.

That's until I decided to create a crontab to modify my iptables 
rules at different times of the day.  :-)   Guess what?  Yup!
The crontabs are kept in:  /var/spool/cron/tabs/
All crontabs are lost after a reboot.

Do I need to create a custom boot script that recreates the crontab from
scratch on every boot?  Or should we save some of the /var files in
etc.tar.bz2 or var.tar.bz2?  Or should we sym-link /var/spool/cron to
/etc so they get saved?  (or none of the above? :)

And, are there other files in /var worth saving? ...

 - BS