Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 16:50:42 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Proper location of files in /etc Message-ID: <199501091550.QAA16235@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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There are many files in /etc (perhaps everything but /etc/rc) which
are machine specific. In the interest of diskless support, and also
to ease installations, it would be very nice if the whole directory
(or at least many of its files) could be made machine-dependant.
I know it is going to be tricky, because /etc/rc must be on the root
partition, and mounting a directory on top of /etc it is going to make
things confuse if working at all.
How about allowing "init" to look for "rc" in some other directory
first, say in /, so that /etc can be customized/mounted separately
for each machine (say, leaving in the original /etc only the default
information) ?
Luigi
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email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa
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