From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 23 16:22:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA19020 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 16:22:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA18984 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 16:21:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id BAA01022 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 01:21:25 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id BAA05159 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 01:21:25 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.6/8.6.9) id BAA29130 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 01:02:34 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610232302.BAA29130@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: root only: (was Re: comments on this change please.) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 01:02:34 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Michael Hancock at "Oct 24, 96 07:44:07 am" 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 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Michael Hancock wrote: > > Regardless how many asterisks you put in there, you already lose. > > There are tons of local config files in and under /etc. > > A journey of a thousand steps starts with a single step. I don't know of other people's opinions (apart from Terry, but i knew this before, so it's not really news to me), but i'm rather satisfied with having all my local configuration inside /etc. (/var/cron/tabs is also a link into /etc for me.) The entire /etc directory nicely fits even onto a floppy, and it basically saves my entire machine configuration. Well, there's /usr/local/etc still, but maybe i gonna link this to /etc/local/ some day, too... -- 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. ;-)