Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 23:37:29 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cp MAKEDEV /dev - on a system with devfs Message-ID: <200103132337.f2DNbTa08184@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> of "Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:38:22 GMT." <20010313223822.O96832@hand.dotat.at>
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> Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> wrote:
> >
> >I thought only sysv kept non-startup executables in /etc.
>
> There's one real oddity in FreeBSD:
>
> fanf@hand.dotat.at:/etc
> :; ll rmt
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 13 Jan 28 13:42 rmt -> /usr/sbin/rmt*
I think that's there for compatibility... programs that want to talk
to remote tapes execute ``rsh /etc/rmt ...'' (or is ssh the default
these days?).
> Plus the rc scripts, dhclient-exit-hooks, pccard_ether, and netstart.
I guess you could argue that these are more like executable
system configuration files, along with others like
/etc/start_if.iface.
> Tony.
> --
> f.a.n.finch fanf@covalent.net dot@dotat.at
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