From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 13 15:03:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DDCD16A4CE for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:03:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (mta05-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85FAB43D2D for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:03:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scott@fishballoon.org) Received: from llama.fishballoon.org ([81.104.195.124]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.comESMTP <20040813150129.GZOC11492.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@llama.fishballoon.org>; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:01:29 +0100 Received: from scott by llama.fishballoon.org with local (Exim 4.41 (FreeBSD)) id 1Bvdax-000H6g-7V; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:03:51 +0100 Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:03:51 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell To: Danny Pansters Message-ID: <20040813150350.GA65471@llama.fishballoon.org> References: <7656a1a724a4257a15f6ca.20040812162717.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> <20040812204039.3648f75f.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <200408130342.53107.danny@ricin.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200408130342.53107.danny@ricin.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p4 i386 Sender: Scott Mitchell cc: jmlewis@dslextreme.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc and /usr/local/etc directories X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:03:53 -0000 On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 03:42:52AM +0200, Danny Pansters wrote: > > For system (OS, that's kernel and userland) settings you have /etc > For local (packages/ports) settings you have /usr/local/etc or /usr/X11R6/etc > > Of course these two local bases should have been merely hard linked long ago > but that's not my decision :) One very good reason to keep these separate is that you might be mounting /usr/{local,X11R6} on many machines from a shared NFS drive. By keeping the shared configuration on the shared drive you don't have to replicate it on every machine, and /etc just contains machine-specific configuration. Cheers, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon