From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 28 12:25:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA11573 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 12:25:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA11560 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 12:25:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA09352 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Thu, 28 Nov 1996 12:25:58 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA13274 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 21:22:33 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA24517 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 21:22:32 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id VAA16312 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 21:02:15 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611282002.VAA16312@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: /usr/local/etc/*.d... To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 21:02:15 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199611281319.XAA15325@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Nov 28, 96 11:49:27 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Pgp-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Michael Smith wrote: > Edit the value of 'local_startup' in /etc/sysconfig to wherever you > want it to be. It's right at the top of the file; hard to miss. This still leaves you with the problem that (almost) all the files under /usr/local/etc/ are not shareable. It's the location where the config files reside, these are often machine-dependant (like ssh keys etc.). I've solved this by making /usr/local/etc a symlink. Perhaps sysinstall should offer this as an option? > > A good example of the "greying" of this area is the XFree config file > > (/etc/XF86Config). By definition, shouldn't this live someplace in > > /usr/X11R6? But unlike with ports/packages, this file has not been _extracted_ there, but installed using a configuration tool. You are not forced to use this configuration tool, nor are you forced to finally agree when it's asking ``Shall i write?''. So it's already been the decision of the local admin to put it there, as opposed to some automatic installation. > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config. I don't know why XF86Setup puts it in > /etc, which is the "local override" location; I presume lack of > testing on the part of the suppoed XF86Setup/FreeBSD betatesters > (oops). Barely. It's intention, since the configuration of an X11 server is heavily machine-dependant. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)