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From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>
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Subject: Re: ports startup scripts
To: gryphon@healer.com (Coranth Gryphon)
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 17:01:35 +0600 (GMT+0600)
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In-Reply-To: <199509211228.IAA23028@healer.com> from "Coranth Gryphon" at Sep 21, 95 08:28:57 am
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> 
> Serge Babkin (babkin@hq.icb.chel.su) comments:
> >Coranth Gryhon writes: 
> > +> Yuk. One sub-directory of /etc being used just to have symlinks to
> > +> another sub-directory of /etc?
> 
> > Old SCO had hard links and it was a big problem because they had a bad
> > trend to restore as separate files from backups. So symbolic links
> > look better.
> 
> I've had the unfortunate experience of using SCO and its
> "/var/.../sco/K/.../*" links. Please god not again.
> 
> Symbolic links are only needed if you cannot put something in the place
> that it belongs for some reason. Startup and config information belongs
> in /etc/... (that's what the directory is there for).
> 
> If you NEED to put it in another place (/usr/X11 or /usr/local) then
> fine, put a symlink in /etc. Else just put it orignally in /etc.

Yes, their place in SCO is very strange. But IMO the idea of
symlinks is good or at least much better than hard links. Just place 
these scripts in /etc instead of /var/.../sco/K/*. Or make 'start'
and 'stop' scripts really different files without any links.

		Serge Babkin

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