Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:20:38 -0400 From: Jim Trigg <jtrigg@spamcop.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc and /usr/local/etc directories Message-ID: <20040813152038.GF94419@spamcop.net> In-Reply-To: <20040813150350.GA65471@llama.fishballoon.org> References: <7656a1a724a4257a15f6ca.20040812162717.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> <20040812204039.3648f75f.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <200408130342.53107.danny@ricin.com> <20040813150350.GA65471@llama.fishballoon.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 04:03:51PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote:
> 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.
But most of what's in /usr/local/etc is machine-specific. Personally,
on the next rebuild I intend to make /usr/local/etc a symbolic link to
/etc/local. (Then again, I plan to use /opt for third-party applications
and /usr/local only for locally-developed applications. /opt/etc will be
a symbolic link to /etc/opt as well.)
Note that I'm using a symbolic link; this is because /etc is on the
root filesystem while /usr and /opt will be separate filesystems.
Jim
--
Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /"\
\ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN
Hostmaster, Huie Kin family website X HELP CURE HTML MAIL
Verger, All Saints Church - Sharon Chapel / \
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040813152038.GF94419>