Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 10:26:11 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: root only: (was Re: comments on this change please.) Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.93.961024101033.19762A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <20300.846114025@orion.webspan.net>
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On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Gary Palmer wrote: > Now do you see why it shouldn't be moved Terry? It may be the > `architecturally pure and clean' (or however you spell that word) > thing to do, but we also have to operate on the principle of least > surprise here ... people aren't going to expect /etc to suddenly > become /var/conf or something. I know I, for one, object to it being > moved ... it's become ingrained into my head to look in /etc or > /usr/local/etc, and I've only been working with unix for 5 years or > so. I'd feel real sorry for people who have been working with unix for > longer. I guess it's controversial, but BSDI puts a lot of big things like www, news, and named into /var. For example innd, lives in /var/news (there's a symlink in /var/spool/news) and the news specific variable local config files are in /var/news/etc. The config things that are pretty static with the innd distribution go in /usr/local/lib/news somewhere or was that /usr/contrib. Anyway, I hated /usr/contrib for these things so I moved them to /usr/local. WWW is put into /var/www and it's configurable stuff is in /var/www/conf. At first I thought this was wierd, but I've gotten used to it. Actually, I like it now because most of what I need to know about www can be found in one place. I do this now for FreeBSD so I reserve a whole lot more space in /var than in /usr/local than I used to. One thing I do like about FreeBSD is /usr/local/etc/rc.d, this is pretty cool. I like because it separates local startup scripts from the standard system stuff and is far easier to manage than the monolithic rc.local. Regards, Mike Hancock
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