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Date:      Wed, 26 Jul 1995 16:28:23 +0100 (BST)
From:      Paul Richards <paul@netcraft.co.uk>
To:        wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Knobs in /etc/sysconfig
Message-ID:  <199507261528.QAA16201@server.netcraft.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <9507251419.AA06573@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Jul 25, 95 10:19:38 am

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In reply to Garrett Wollman who said
> 
> <<On Mon, 24 Jul 1995 20:21:04 -0700, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> said:
> 
> I don't like the idea of /etc/sysconfig.local as a dumping-ground for
> third-party software configuration options.  Either there should be a
> third-party section in the real /etc/sysconfig, or there should be a
> separate config file for each service (/etc/rc.local.d/$service.cf?).
> I lean towards the former.

Anything wrong with /usr/local/etc ? I don't like third party
packages touching /etc period.

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  Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. 
  Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, http://www.freebsd.org/~paul
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