Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 01:40:20 -0400 From: "Kevin P. Neal" <kpneal@pobox.com> To: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My FreeBSD Wish List... Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19970910054020.00cc13ec@mail.mindspring.com>
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At 02:30 PM 9/10/97 +1000, David Dawes wrote: >On a partly related note, a future XFree86 release will put config files >(like xdm config files for example) in a directory hierarchy below /var >(most likely /var/X11). It is possible that future X11 releases from The >Open Group will do this too. This will make it easier to use a read-only >/usr/X11R6. None of this has been set in stone yet, so if anyone has >any comments about this, please let me know. Wouldn't it be better to put them below, say, /etc/X11? With logging going to /var/log/X11/* or something? I personally am bothered by config files in /var. I was under the impression that /etc was the proper location of config files. >From NetBSD's hier manpage (the FreeBSD box in the apt is in the room of a sleeping person, so...): /etc system configuration files and scripts /var multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool files. Am I out of line here? -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Junior, Comp. Sci. - House of Retrocomputing XCOMM mailto:kpneal@pobox.com - http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ XCOMM kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu Spoken by Keir Finlow-Bates: XCOMM "Good grief, I've just noticed I've typed in a rant. Sorry chaps!"
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