From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 8 04:45:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 118B337B40B for ; Thu, 8 May 2003 04:45:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3846B43F75 for ; Thu, 8 May 2003 04:45:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erichey2@attbi.com) Received: from rchpc3.home.com (12-254-23-4.client.attbi.com[12.254.23.4]) by attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with SMTP id <2003050811454000300bdphse>; Thu, 8 May 2003 11:45:40 +0000 Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 05:46:22 -0600 From: collins To: bsd Message-Id: <20030508054622.66b3bac7.erichey2@attbi.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: /usr/local/bin and so forth X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 11:45:44 -0000 Coming from a linux background (gentoo distro), I find it strange to find all sorts of crap in /usr/local/bin. I'm used to find all standard software in /usr/bin (or certain binary packages in /opt) and to find /usr/local/bin reserved for stuff added by the local administrator. 1. What's the rationale behind this for freebsd? 2. Where does one (as a standard) put truly local scripts, etc. so it won't get confused with all the stuff in /usr/local/bin? Thanks, -- Collins Richey - Denver Area FreeBSD 5.0