From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 13 15:20:39 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 A9D2916A4D5 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:20:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from argent.heraldsnet.org (argent.heraldsnet.org [64.83.41.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55E9B43D31 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:20:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jtrigg@spamcop.net) Received: by argent.heraldsnet.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 44856123; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:20:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:20:38 -0400 From: Jim Trigg To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040813152038.GF94419@spamcop.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <7656a1a724a4257a15f6ca.20040812162717.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> <20040812204039.3648f75f.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <200408130342.53107.danny@ricin.com> <20040813150350.GA65471@llama.fishballoon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040813150350.GA65471@llama.fishballoon.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . 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 15:20:39 -0000 On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 04:03:51PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote: > 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. But most of what's in /usr/local/etc is machine-specific. Personally, on the next rebuild I intend to make /usr/local/etc a symbolic link to /etc/local. (Then again, I plan to use /opt for third-party applications and /usr/local only for locally-developed applications. /opt/etc will be a symbolic link to /etc/opt as well.) Note that I'm using a symbolic link; this is because /etc is on the root filesystem while /usr and /opt will be separate filesystems. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Hostmaster, Huie Kin family website X HELP CURE HTML MAIL Verger, All Saints Church - Sharon Chapel / \