From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 12 04:53:43 1995 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA07295 for stable-outgoing; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 04:53:43 -0800 Received: from DATAPLEX.NET (SHARK.DATAPLEX.NET [199.183.109.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA07290 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 04:53:41 -0800 Received: from [199.183.109.242] by DATAPLEX.NET with SMTP (MailShare 1.0fc5); Sun, 12 Nov 1995 06:19:40 -0600 X-Sender: rkw@shark.dataplex.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 06:19:38 -0600 To: stable@freebsd.org From: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Subject: Questionable decision Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In order to save space, etc., the termcap in /etc was replaced by a symbolic link to /usr/share ... lobster: {10} ls -l /etc/term* lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 23 Nov 12 05:25 /etc/termcap -> /usr/share/misc/termcap Since /usr/share is a prime candidate for nfs, I mounted it from another machine lobster: {14} df Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on [...] eel:/usr/share 834446 644310 123380 84% /usr/share If the mount goes as expected, everything is great. But what if eel is down? Now login doesn't want to let me in because it cannot recognize by terminal :-( I have copied termcap from shared storage to /etc. IMHO, since login requires the file, it is a REQUIRED configuration file. Therefore it should be in the required configuration area, /etc. ---- Richard Wackerbarth rkw@dataplex.net