From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 23 18:45:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7859816A524 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:45:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeff@home.jeffenstein.dyndns.org) Received: from jeffenstein.dyndns.org (jeffenstein.dyndns.org [69.56.173.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 241B343D45 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:45:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeff@home.jeffenstein.dyndns.org) Received: by centipede (Postfix, from userid 10) id 42EC7451DE; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:45:07 -0500 (EST) Received: by home.jeffenstein.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6DAC273058; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:42:40 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:42:40 +0100 From: Jeff Fisher To: freebsd-stable Message-ID: <20060323184240.GH97230@frogger.jeffnet> Mail-Followup-To: Jeff Fisher , freebsd-stable References: <4421F47F.3050104@andrzejcuber.pl> <20060323012805.GB23902@thought.org> <620ACC77-4F21-456C-85EC-3E1723F77568@khera.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <620ACC77-4F21-456C-85EC-3E1723F77568@khera.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: a place for configuration files X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:45:08 -0000 On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 10:24:04AM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: > From: Vivek Khera > Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:24:04 -0500 > To: freebsd-stable > X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.3) > Subject: Re: a place for configuration files > > > 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. At more than one place where I've worked, /usr/local was a common NFS mount, which meant a lot less overhead for installing site-local packages. Depending on the number of servers you're managing, it can be quite a bit easier to do this (or use rsync/rdist) to have a common site-wide repository of local software, than to manage local packages, and their dependencies / upgrades across all servers. -- jeff@jeffenstein.dyndns.org http://jeffenstein.dyndns.org/ PGP mail preferred, key id 0x19C987F5 "It is our belief, however, that serious professional users will run out of things they can do with UNIX. They'll want a real system and will end up doing VMS when they get to be serious about programming." -- Ken Olsen, CEO of DEC, 1984