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From: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com>
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To: jmb@kryten.atinc.com, peter@taronga.com
Subject: Re: ports startup scripts
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On Sat, 23 Sep 1995, Peter da Silva wrote:
> hold all the random *.conf files (/etc/conf.d?)
> would tidy up /etc no end too...

One thing that came up earlier (I forgot who I agreed with :-)
was to put anything that had a bunch of control files (ppp, named,
inet, uucp, mail) in it's own directory and keep the generic stuff
(everything with only one or two files) in /etc.

Why? Because /etc IS the one-stop-shopping place for config files.

-coranth


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