Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:10:09 +0200
Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jo, 24 feb 11, 16:33:09, Celejar wrote:
> > 
> > Certainly - but my advice stands for typical, general purpose desktops,
> > laptops and servers.
> 
> I doubt typical, general purpose desktops and laptops (yes, I omitted 
> servers) are using /var/spool/mail or /var/spool/cron/crontabs

I always thought my getmail POP setup was pretty typical - I have it
configured to use /var/spool/mail/username as the mail spool.  Is that
atypical, or a bad idea for some reason?

And my crontab does seem to be stored
under /var/spool/cron/crontabs.  Is that not typical?

Celejar
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