Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:24:04 -0500 From: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> To: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: a place for configuration files Message-ID: <620ACC77-4F21-456C-85EC-3E1723F77568@khera.org> In-Reply-To: <20060323012805.GB23902@thought.org> References: <4421F47F.3050104@andrzejcuber.pl> <20060323012805.GB23902@thought.org>
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On Mar 22, 2006, at 8:28 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > I think having a /usr/local/etc is "new" (past decade maybe), We've had /usr/local on Sun boxes since I can remember (started using SunOS 2.x back in college) and administering 4.2BSD (not FreeBSD 4.2, but 4.2BSD from Berkeley) on vaxen 'round about 1986-ish and we had / usr/local for local (ie, not part of the base system) software. In fact, it was actually a separate disk partition too.
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