Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 19:25:14 +0200 From: Sebastian Lederer <lederer@bonn-online.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/init.d/ Message-ID: <33C90F7A.41C67EA6@bonn-online.com> References: <19970711093543.62687@tversu.ac.ru> <19970711084614.RJ19398@uriah.heep.sax.de> <33C5EFC1.41C67EA6@bonn-online.com> <19970711211440.BV38545@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch wrote: > > If you're NFS-exporting your /usr/local, you are basically expected to > care for /usr/local/etc yourself. Typically, this would be a symlink > to /etc/local/ then. There's quite more in /usr/local/etc that will > make it machine-specific, like various configuration files. > > This should probably be mentioned somewhere. > But /usr/local is *very* likely to be NFS-exported in a NIS/NFS-server environment. So it should not be used for host specific data anyway. You suggest this yourself, to use /etc/local instead of /usr/local/etc. What would be the disadvantages if we used /etc/local by default (on machines in an nfs-less environment) ? -- Sebastian Lederer lederer@bonn-online.com
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