From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 23 20:32: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-54.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5779437B405 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 20:31:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A6D8B66D1C; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 20:31:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 20:31:57 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Aaron Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggested Message-ID: <20010823203157.B5802@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010824025913.E23AF37B409@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="8GpibOaaTibBMecb" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010824025913.E23AF37B409@hub.freebsd.org>; from click46@webpimps.net on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 07:57:27PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --8GpibOaaTibBMecb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 07:57:27PM -0700, Aaron wrote: >=20 > After months of using FreeBSD, there is only one area in which I am=20 > still quite fuzzy. There seems to be no real standard place to=20 > install "stuff". For example, when I installed Samba the other day, I=20 > decided to use ./configure --prefix=3D/ --exec-prefix=3D/usr. Bad idea, I= =20 > realized, since my 88M / slice began to fill up and now nmbd core dumps= =20 > when stopped. >=20 > So my question is, how does one make an informed decision as to where= =20 > to place what? I know all unices have different places for different=20 > things - what are FreeBSD's? For example, what goes in /usr/local/=20 > and /usr? >=20 > Thanks for any light you could shed on the subject. I know my question is= =20 > posed in the most elegant matter but I hope it makes sense. /usr/local and /usr/X11R6 (for X11 applications) are the standard prefixes. If you were using the samba port, for example, thats where it would install it automatically. See also hier(7) Kris --8GpibOaaTibBMecb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7hcqtWry0BWjoQKURApD1AKDpIESCTj9Dy+JydQ/vBcPjbikAswCbBWqY 9YYL6l1RWPGdvlOLRdlop84= =TUE7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8GpibOaaTibBMecb-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message