From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 8 08:52:23 2003 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 B3BE037B44B for ; Thu, 8 May 2003 08:52:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pd6mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C570F43F85 for ; Thu, 8 May 2003 08:52:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cpressey@catseye.mb.ca) Received: from pd5mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr2so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.233]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0HEK007HQS378K@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 08 May 2003 09:52:19 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml2so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml2so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.146]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HEK00E9ZS37X3@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 08 May 2003 09:52:19 -0600 (MDT) Received: from www.kallisti.ca (h24-70-180-74.wp.shawcable.net [24.70.180.74]) 2003))freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 08 May 2003 09:52:19 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 10:52:52 -0500 From: Chris Pressey In-reply-to: <20030508054622.66b3bac7.erichey2@attbi.com> To: collins Message-id: <20030508105252.101fda8d.cpressey@catseye.mb.ca> Organization: Cat's Eye Technologies MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.8) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <20030508054622.66b3bac7.erichey2@attbi.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/local/bin and so forth X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 15:52:23 -0000 On Thu, 8 May 2003 05:46:22 -0600 collins wrote: > Coming from a linux background (gentoo distro), I find it strange to > find all sorts of crap in /usr/local/bin. I'm used to find all > standard software in /usr/bin (or certain binary packages in /opt) and > to find/usr/local/bin reserved for stuff added by the local > administrator. That is the way it works in FreeBSD, if by "standard software" you mean "base install" and by "stuff added by the local administrator" you mean "ports and packages." > 1. What's the rationale behind this for freebsd? /usr/bin is for the operating system's files, /usr/local/bin is for stuff added by the local administrator. > 2. Where does one (as a standard) put truly local scripts, etc. so it > won't get confused with all the stuff in /usr/local/bin? Not sure there is a "standard" for something like this besides "whatever works for the individual." Me personally, I like to put scripts and such in ~/bin, and if other users need to run them I'll create symlinks to them from /usr/local/bin. -Chris