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Date:      Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:28:20 -0500 (CDT)
From:      David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com>
To:        David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>, matt@fear.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How Is The FeeBSD OS Like and Different Than Say Redhat or Suse LINUX
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104240849330.97832-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010424084441.A11578@grumpy.dyndns.org>

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On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, David Kelly wrote:

:As for home-grown or self-ported apps, they belong in ~/bin. Anyone who
:has had to use a Unix system w/o the root password knows this. As a
:sysadmin I've had to beat this into a number of luser's heads over the
:years. *I* keep my personal stuff in ~/bin, and I'm the only user on
:most of my FreeBSD systems.

That depends.  If you've got local application that useful for multiple
people, or for the administration of the box, it belongs in /usr/local.
It's non-sensical to have backup scripts in ~david/bin.  The random scripts
that make my life easier, like my nethack cheating scripts, certainly belong
in ~/bin.  

-- 
dscheidt@tumbolia.com
Bipedalism is only a fad.


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