Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 02:06:07 +0100 From: Andrzej Cuber <poczta@andrzejcuber.pl> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: a place for configuration files Message-ID: <4421F47F.3050104@andrzejcuber.pl>
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Hello Everyone, for the last 5 years I was using Red Hat and Fedora Core Linuxes. With the beginning of the current year I installed FreeBSD Release 6 on one of my servers. It took me about a week to setup the system but I am very happy with it now. I build most of the stuff from the sources using ports. What I found strange is that the configuration files of different services are located in two different places. Most configuration which was installed from the CD is located at /etc but everything what I built from sources is located at /usr/local/etc. Maybe this is the way it use to be on Unix based systems. In RedHat and Fedora distributions all configuration files are located at /etc. I am very new to FreeBSD but I found it difficult. After installing desired package I have to add it to /etc/rc.conf in order to start it as a service and then I have to look for configuration folder in /usr/local/etc. Is there any reason why the configuration files are placed in those different locations? -- pozdrawiam / best regards Andrzej Cuber +48 504 271-977
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