From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 25 21:25:01 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA22428 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 25 Jun 1995 21:25:01 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA22415 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 1995 21:24:57 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA14461; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 06:24:54 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id GAA07632 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 06:24:53 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id AAA20083 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 00:35:54 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506252235.AAA20083@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 00:35:53 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <9506252148.AA11980@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Jun 25, 95 03:48:27 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 906 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > Yeah. Nothing that can't be overwritten should be in /etc. > > The sysconfig stuf should go in /var. /var is per machine. Totally disagreed. /var is basically crap. /var/spool and /var/crash come to mind. Nobody is really going to even backup that crap. Our current filesystem layout allows to go _all_ configuration information from /etc to fit onto a single standard floppy. HIER(7) UNIX Reference Manual HIER(7) NAME hier - layout of filesystems ... /etc/ system configuration files and scripts ... /var/ multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool files ... I cannot see how sysconfig would fit into ``log, temporary, transient and spool'' files. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)