Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:50:11 -0400 From: Randy Pratt <bsd-unix@embarqmail.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why /usr/local/etc??? Message-ID: <20080823215011.5fc4f603.bsd-unix@embarqmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080824012442.GA46150@thought.org> References: <20080824012442.GA46150@thought.org>
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On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:24:48 -0700 Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > > Folks, > > This may have been covered too-often before, buy why can't > *everything* related to /etc hang off "/etc"? I can create a > symlink in /etc to /usr/local/etc named "loc" or "local". > Thing is, why this isn't done by default? Everything could be off / too but that's not how FreeBSD does it. See man 7 heir. Its a sketch of the FreeBSD filesystem hierarchy. Randy --
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