From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 13 15:34:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [194.222.196.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C48C637B719 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:34:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2DNaXC16316; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 23:36:33 GMT (envelope-from brian@lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f2DNbTa08184; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 23:37:29 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200103132337.f2DNbTa08184@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Tony Finch Cc: Brian Somers , current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cp MAKEDEV /dev - on a system with devfs In-Reply-To: Message from Tony Finch of "Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:38:22 GMT." <20010313223822.O96832@hand.dotat.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 23:37:29 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Brian Somers 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 > "I never wanted to be a weather forecaster -- I wanted to be... a lumberjack! > Leaping from tree to tree as they float down the mighty rivers of British > Columbia! The giant redwood! The larch! The The mighty scots pine! ..." -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message