From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 24 7:30:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-1.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB99E37B422 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 07:30:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by smtp-1.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC0975EE0; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:28:20 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:28:20 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt X-Sender: dscheidt@shell-1.enteract.com To: David Kelly Cc: "Albert D. Cahalan" , matt@fear.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How Is The FeeBSD OS Like and Different Than Say Redhat or Suse LINUX In-Reply-To: <20010424084441.A11578@grumpy.dyndns.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, David Kelly wrote: :As for home-grown or self-ported apps, they belong in ~/bin. Anyone who :has had to use a Unix system w/o the root password knows this. As a :sysadmin I've had to beat this into a number of luser's heads over the :years. *I* keep my personal stuff in ~/bin, and I'm the only user on :most of my FreeBSD systems. That depends. If you've got local application that useful for multiple people, or for the administration of the box, it belongs in /usr/local. It's non-sensical to have backup scripts in ~david/bin. The random scripts that make my life easier, like my nethack cheating scripts, certainly belong in ~/bin. -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message