From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 14 19:21:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA29494 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 19:21:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from roguetrader.com (brandon@cold.org [206.81.134.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA29488 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 19:21:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (brandon@localhost) by roguetrader.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA13366 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 20:21:30 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 20:21:30 -0600 (MDT) From: Brandon Gillespie To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /etc/init.d/ .. both? In-Reply-To: <33CA3780.389F@cki.ipri.kiev.ua> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Just a thought.. why not have both? Somebody mentioned /var as a better machine-specific mount point than /etc--but /sbin is also used. If it was /var/ there should at least be a softlink from /etc to lessen confusion. Regardless, it would not be a problem at all to check both locations.. no? Frankly, if I were to do things via NFS I would also have exported 'local' without giving it a second thought. 'local' IMHO is the repository for software systems outside the normal bounds of the standard OS install--not necessarily the configurations. I can live with local/etc/rc.d, but there should still be an option for packages which are not necessarily something you want to globally install--and are instead specific to one or a few hosts (such as HTTPd). -Brandon Gillespie