Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 22:47:51 -0500 From: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com> To: questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: /usr/local/etc/*.d... Message-ID: <199611280347.WAA00626@spoon.beta.com>
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I was just tinkering around with 2.2-ALPHA, and noticed that some startup information had been shifted from /etc/rc.local into individual shells in /usr/local/etc/rc.d (and others, for X11 for instance). Now, although I think this is a neat idea. I'm not real keen on the location of the files.... As I run several FreeBSD boxes, I tend to keep one as a "server", and then a series of clients. The "server" machine is the one with the big disk, and maintains most of the binaries (ie - /usr/local/bin). The server also runs most of the services - mail, the web server, anonymous ftp, the databases, etc. The "client" machines usually only run a small subset of these (most notably removed are the Web servers, Samba, FTP, and a few others). Unfortunately, when I loaded 2.2-ALPHA on my first workstation, mounted /usr/local, /usr/src, /usr/ports, and /usr/X11 from the server, suddenly a copy of my web server was running. It took me awhile to figure out that that is where Apache got started from by default. Now, I'm a little hesitant to conform to this "new standard", as, if I migrate from using /etc/rc.local to the rc.* directories, these directories will now be common across all machines (which is bad). Wouldn't it make more sense to stick it under /etc somplace, rather than in /usr/local/etc (which, I know, has always been a rather stupid name for a directory you're most likely going to export?), so its not a "common place". Either that, or change the standard path for user installed binaries to be something other than /usr/local (perhaps /usr/export - more like the Sun naming scheme). In any event, just my two cents worth. I'm surprised more people haven't commented. -Brian
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