From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 6 15:59:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 864D337B421 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:59:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id AA2415341; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 00:59:14 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Kevin.Lyons@kvaerner.com Cc: jan@caustic.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Historical /usr/local References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 07 Feb 2002 00:59:14 +0100 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kevin.Lyons@kvaerner.com writes: > /usr is "local" to the machine. /usr/local is also "local". I guess the > only case when /usr is not local is if its nfs mounted-but that can't be the > reason. I realize the convention is that add-on programs go to /usr/local > similar to /opt in slowaris but the terminology or historical basis eludes > me. /usr/local contains site-local binaries and data, i.e. binaries and data that are not part of the operating system itself but have been developed locally or obtained from third-party vendors. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message