From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 9 07:47:09 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id HAA26846 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Jan 1995 07:47:09 -0800 Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA26839 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 1995 07:46:55 -0800 Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id QAA16235 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 9 Jan 1995 16:50:43 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199501091550.QAA16235@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Proper location of files in /etc To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 16:50:42 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1025 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 ====================================================================