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Date:      Thu, 30 May 2002 18:04:57 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Daniel Blankensteiner <db@traceroute.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD daemon configurations redesign
Message-ID:  <3CF6CC39.BFC0A232@mindspring.com>
References:  <F67gL6wxvw0IDT8zAJ90000d078@hotmail.com> <00c601c2082d$bc531ff0$6800a8c0@rafter> <3CF6B300.145E0CD9@mindspring.com> <011201c20832$34404750$6800a8c0@rafter>

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Daniel Blankensteiner wrote:
> Terry, what do you think about the /etc/daemons/ suggestion? and the
> other things about logging, user access file and so on?

I think it's a bad idea to move to per program configuration
files.  I am reminded of "*.INI" in Windows 3.11.

I also think it's bad to put things under /etc, since I think
/etc should be read-only.  I think that eventually, we will
see all such things live under /var.

I think it's an especially bad idea to put configuration data
into files in subdirectories of /etc.  I wouldn't have sent the
configuration patches to the bind 9 folks, if I liked the
factory defaults.  8-).

I just wish that "flash" had caught on more, when the limiting
factor was the number of times that it could be written, and
the footprint of the resulting system.

-- Terry

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