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Date:      Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:50:11 -0400
From:      Randy Pratt <bsd-unix@embarqmail.com>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Why /usr/local/etc???
Message-ID:  <20080823215011.5fc4f603.bsd-unix@embarqmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080824012442.GA46150@thought.org>
References:  <20080824012442.GA46150@thought.org>

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On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:24:48 -0700
Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:

> 
> 	Folks,
> 
> 	This may have been covered too-often before, buy why can't
> 	*everything* related to /etc hang off "/etc"?  I can create a
> 	symlink in /etc to /usr/local/etc named "loc" or "local".  
> 	Thing is, why this isn't done by default?

Everything could be off / too but that's not how FreeBSD does it.

See man 7 heir.  Its a sketch of the FreeBSD filesystem hierarchy.

Randy
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