From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 11 12:23:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA29035 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 12:23:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA29020 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 12:23:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA14563 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 21:22:58 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA04604; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 21:14:40 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970711211440.BV38545@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 21:14:40 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/init.d/ References: <19970711093543.62687@tversu.ac.ru> <19970711084614.RJ19398@uriah.heep.sax.de> <33C5EFC1.41C67EA6@bonn-online.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <33C5EFC1.41C67EA6@bonn-online.com>; from Sebastian Lederer on Jul 11, 1997 10:33:05 +0200 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Sebastian Lederer wrote: > But I would suggest that the /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory is > moved to /etc/rc.d. > > Imagine a server machine running the apache httpd, which is > started from /usr/local/etc/rc.d, and several diskless clients, > nfs-mounting their filesystems (including /usr/local) from the > server. If you're NFS-exporting your /usr/local, you are basically expected to care for /usr/local/etc yourself. Typically, this would be a symlink to /etc/local/ then. There's quite more in /usr/local/etc that will make it machine-specific, like various configuration files. This should probably be mentioned somewhere. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)