From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 12 6:55:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F08337B6EA for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 06:35:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #2) id 16knMI-000A3v-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:34:34 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 0611113040 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:34:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id 35EF922597; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:34:34 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:34:34 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HIERARCHY BATTLE: Beat the shit out of the rest! Message-ID: <20020312143434.GD1577@raggedclown.net> References: <20020311161604.05a35bc5.johann@broadpark.no> <20020311173458.GA721@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020311173458.GA721@hades.hell.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 07:34:58PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-03-11 16:16, J.S. wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Am I the only one who have wasted hours trying to come up with a new > > hierarchy that will function and seem superiorly structured and organized > > to my previous ones? > > > > I was thinking issuing a `hierarchy battle' on this mailinglist would > > allow people with the same problem to exchange ideas with one another. > > > > I must also ask those who already are satisfied with their personal > > hierarchy to please contribute with their setup and show us newbies how > > it's done. Even if it means publishing your creativity in favor of others. > > What hierarchy are you talking about? Not that I would love another > flamefest, which I won't. But I think I have missed your question here. > I don't think there is a battle required. There is a hierarchy that FreeBSD uses, the only minorly controversial point, that I believe gets discussed at every level from time to time over the years is the use of "/usr/local". This is really a semantic problem, in that "local" implies for a lot of people, their own "stuff" .. i.e. programs, scripts docs etc that they produce themselves. In FreeBSD it is the home of installed programs that are not part of the base distribution, viz. "ports". (Forgetting about X11 for a moment which plays by it's own rules). You can change this I believe if you really want to. But if you go with the current hierarchy then the only thing you have to consider is what to do with your really local, local stuff :). I simply have an equivalent hierarchy under /home, i.e. /home/bin /home/sbin /home/etc ...and so on This way, since you are presumably backing up /home anyway, you can always reproduce your local setup when disaster strikes. You can always reproduce the /usr/local hierarchy from scratch if it really came to it. To make your life easier in the face of this disaster you obviously should keep at least a backup of /etc and /usr/local/etc. Of course what else you backup depends on your situation. The above is only a generalisation. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message