Date: Sun, 2 Jul 1995 08:56:31 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP Message-ID: <199507020656.IAA02920@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9507011944.AA10785@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Jul 1, 95 01:44:02 pm
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > There is quite more system configuration stuff in /etc. Consider > > /etc/namedb, /etc/uucp, /etc/slip and /etc/uucp. All of them are > > site-specific. > > The /etc/namedb stuff on most systems I've seen goes in /var/named. > > The uucp stuff is largely relocatable (and not generally applicable > to a diskless/dataless environment anyway -- neither are any of the > others, for that matter). But it's a matter of fact that we are currently shipping it under /etc. And we have been all the time. And it's certainly more applicable for the ``average configuration'' to have the system configuration there, since diskless configuration is certainly of marginal interest for most of our users, while i'm sure that many will love the ability to backup all the configuration on a simple floppy (which is not possible with the entire /var). > And you must really like uucp to use it twice as an example. 8-). Hmm, you know, i simply _have_ to use it here. :) But i can come up with more examples quite well: login.access, ftpusers, dumpdates, ttys, aliases, sendmail.cf, XF86Config... Of course, if you have 32 machines that are only distinct by their IP addresses, you might share these data among them. But as soon as the machines are somewhat different, it's impossible (e.g. different hardware, one machine has a modem, another machine is mulit-homed, a third one has a couple of terminals on it etc.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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