From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 12 23:27:22 2004 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 D940816A4CE for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:27:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail5.dslextreme.com (mail5.dslextreme.com [66.51.199.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7762643D2F for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:27:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmlewis@dslextreme.com) Received: (qmail 24715 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2004 23:27:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO www.dslextreme.com) (66.51.199.92) by 192.168.8.93 with SMTP; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:27:17 +0000 Message-ID: <7656a1a724a4257a15f6ca.20040812162717.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:27:17 -0700 (PDT) From: "Joshua Lewis" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: DSL Extreme Webmail (www.dslextreme.com) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-AntiVirus: scanned for viruses by AMaViS 0.2.1 (http://amavis.org/) Subject: /etc and /usr/local/etc directories X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jmlewis@dslextreme.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:27:23 -0000 I have decided to take the plunge and try out 5.2.1. I figure it will be 5.3 soon and I like the idea of upgrading at that time. So I am going to start fiddling with it. The first thing I am noticing is when installing apps from the ports directory my config files are getting put into /usr/local/etc instead of where I am used to /etc. I am guessing this by design and wanted to confirm this. Is this a config setting somewhere? It is fine in the /usr/local/etc directory but if it is a config setting then perhaps there are other settings that have changed that I have not encountered yet. I would like to read up on the changes. While I am on the subject. Are there any other differences between 4.10 and 5.X that will take me by surprise? I read through the Release notes on FreeBSD.org and it never mentioned the /etc directory thing. So perhaps there are some other items I should keep my eye out for. Thank you, Joshua Lewis