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From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP
To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 1995 15:14:20 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <9507011944.AA10785@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Jul 1, 95 01:44:02 pm
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This whoole thing is silly, It's very hard to build a completely data driven
environment, at least with the BSD model. System V is a lot easier... you
just put your init/getty stuff in /etc/conf/init.d, and your startup scripts
in /etc/rc*.d/whatever. When you have a new installation it updates the
standard scripts, and /etc/conf/init.d/base, and your custom stuff stays
sane...

Now this can fit well with Terry's /var ideas. I think there needs to be
a pretty consistent location for all this stuff.

	/etc/local.rc		->	/var/conf/rc.d/*
	/etc/ttys		->	/var/conf/init.d/*
	/etc/uucp/*		->	/var/conf/uucp.d/*
	/var/cron/*		->	/var/conf/cron.d/*
	/etc/*.conf		->	/var/conf/*.conf
	/etc/daily		->	/var/conf/cron.d/daily


And so on...

The trick is, the *standard* distribution would come with all these
files and directories empty. I think I might try setting my 1.1.5 system
up this way and see how much of the config stuff can be moved out of /etc
before I upgrade...