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To: "Power JeSsIe!" <jessie@power-jessie.net>
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Subject: Re: /etc symlink!
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From: Don Croyle <croyle@gelemna.org>
Date: 03 Mar 2001 02:14:28 -0500
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"Power JeSsIe!" <jessie@power-jessie.net> writes:

> is it just ok to make a symbolic link of the directory /etc?
> 
> ln -s /usr/etc /etc/
> 
> will this affect anything?

I would think it might make booting the machine difficult.  The
/etc/rc.* files are kind of important, as is /etc/fstab.
-- 
I've always wanted to be a dilettante, but I've never quite been ready
to make the commitment.

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