From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 28 04:13:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B549D16A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 04:13:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mout.perfora.net (mout.perfora.net [217.160.230.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 325C843D5C for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 04:13:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from crs.freebsd_mailinglist@users.nuaptools.com) Received: from cpe-069-134-065-161.carolina.rr.com[69.134.65.161] (helo=crskayak) by mrelay.perfora.net with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKyxe-1D5cHK3Ebo-0002WH; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:13:06 -0500 Message-ID: <006801c51d4b$c95e99a0$be00a8c0@crskayak> From: "Clay" To: Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:11:59 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Provags-ID: perfora.net abuse@perfora.net login:b1de210854115b00b7e9e85015d9a091 Subject: Can "/etc/rc.conf" be replaced with a symlink? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Clay List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 04:13:08 -0000 Howdy, I am for the most part a newbie to FreeBSD. I am wanting to move some config files from their standard location to a single directory and create symlinks for each. Doing this will allow me to more easily maintain and backup the files. dhclient is able to use dhclient.conf when symlink'd. Apache seems to also work when httpd.conf is symlink'd. Can "/etc/rc.conf" be replaced with a symlink? I have done and the file isn't being read/found. Moving the actual file back to /etc fixed the problem. Thanks, -Clay