Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:03:51 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org> To: Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc and /usr/local/etc directories Message-ID: <20040813150350.GA65471@llama.fishballoon.org> In-Reply-To: <200408130342.53107.danny@ricin.com> References: <7656a1a724a4257a15f6ca.20040812162717.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> <20040812204039.3648f75f.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <200408130342.53107.danny@ricin.com>
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On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 03:42:52AM +0200, Danny Pansters wrote:
>
> For system (OS, that's kernel and userland) settings you have /etc
> For local (packages/ports) settings you have /usr/local/etc or /usr/X11R6/etc
>
> Of course these two local bases should have been merely hard linked long ago
> but that's not my decision :)
One very good reason to keep these separate is that you might be mounting
/usr/{local,X11R6} on many machines from a shared NFS drive. By keeping the
shared configuration on the shared drive you don't have to replicate it on
every machine, and /etc just contains machine-specific configuration.
Cheers,
Scott
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