Date: Sat, 1 Jul 95 13:44:02 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP Message-ID: <9507011944.AA10785@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199507011919.VAA04101@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jul 1, 95 09:19:52 pm
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> As Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > Th /etc file contents that you are backing up ar *not* configuration > > files. You *DON'T* make changes to rc.* scripts to configure a machine > > in a data driven environment. That's the beauty of a data-driven > > environment: you just blow everything by selected data files. > > There is quite more system configuration stuff in /etc. Consider > /etc/namedb, /etc/uucp, /etc/slip and /etc/uucp. All of them are > site-specific. The /etc/namedb stuff on most systems I've seen goes in /var/named. The uucp stuff is largely relocatable (and not generally applicable to a diskless/dataless environment anyway -- neither are any of the others, for that matter). And you must really like uucp to use it twice as an example. 8-). > I've once been working with Data General machines, they have been > specialized to be diskless bootable. Nevertheless, they considered > /etc to be machine-dependant. (But they've made /bin a symlink to > /usr/bin. I'm not sure _we_ want this, however.) Probably not; I believe the difference in /usr/bin and /bin on Sun systems relates to "miniroot" installation (or reinstallation) of the / directory and contents. So you could argue it either way, depending on which administrative options you wanted. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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